Chowdhury, G. G.

Introduction to modern information retrieval / G.G. Chowdhury. - 2nd ed. - London : Facet Publishing, 2004. - xii, 474 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Previous ed.: London : Library Association Publications, 1999.

Preface. - Coverage. - Acknowledgements. - 1. Basic concepts of information retrieval systems. - 2. Database technology. - 3. Bibliographic formats. - 4. Cataloguing and metadata. - 5. Subject analysis and representation. - 6. Automatic indexing and file organization. - 7. Vocabulary control. - 8. Abstracts and abstracting. - 9. Searching and retrieval. - 10. Users of information retrieval. - 11. User-centred models of information retrieval. - 12. User interfaces. - 13. Evaluation of information retrieval systems. - 14. Evaluation experiments. - 15. Online and CD-ROM information retrieval. - 16. Multimedia information retrieval. - 17. Hypertext and markup languages. - 18. Web information retrieval. - 19. Intelligent information retrieval. - 20. Natural language processing and information retrieval. - 21. Natural language processing systems. - 22. Information retrieval in digital libraries. - 23. Trends in information retrieval. - Index.

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Information storage and retrieval systems.
Information organization.

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