In this concise history of the early years of information retrieval, Donna Harman, one of the pioneers of the field, provides the reader with a plethora of insights into the important work that led us to where we are today. Written in a chronol...Daugiau...
Provides an overview of bandit algorithms inspired by various aspects of Information Retrieval (IR), such as click models, online ranker evaluation, personalization or the cold-start problem. Using a survey style, each chapter focuses on a spec...Daugiau...
Offers the first survey of neural approaches to conversational AI that targets Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval audiences. The book provides a csurvey of the neural approaches to conversational AI that have been developed,...Daugiau...
Comprehensively reviews the foundations of search engines, from index layouts to basic query processing strategies, while also providing the latest trends in the literature in efficient query processing. It goes on to describe techniques in app...Daugiau...
Provides a complete picture of neural information retrieval techniques that culminate in supervised neural learning to rank models including deep neural network architectures that are trained end-to-end for ranking tasks. In reaching this point...Daugiau...
Provides a comprehensive summary of previous research in aggregated search. The book starts by describing why aggregated search requires unique solutions. It concludes by highlighting the main trends and discussing short-term and long-term area...Daugiau...
Provides researchers who are working on query auto completion or related problems in the field of information retrieval with a good overview and analysis of state-of-the-art QAC approaches. This book also offers a comprehensive perspective on Q...Daugiau...
Over the past decade, the information retrieval community has explored the problem of transforming natural language verbose queries using operations like reduction, weighting, expansion, reformulation and segmentation into more effective struct...Daugiau...
Provides a comprehensive summary of lifelogging, to cover its research history, current technologies, and applications. To date, most of the lifelogging research has focused on visual lifelogging; hence the book maintains this focus. However, i...Daugiau...
Reviews Arabic IR, including the nature of the Arabic language, the techniques used for pre-processing the language, the latest research in Arabic IR in different domains, and the open areas in Arabic IR....Daugiau...
Describes the emergence of the e-discovery field, identifies the information retrieval issues that arise, reviews the work to date on this topic, and summarises major open issues. This is an ideal primer for anyone with an interest in e-discove...Daugiau...
Intellectual property and the patent system in particular have garnered a lot of attention, even in the public media, over the last few years. This monograph is not concerned with any of the controversial issues regarding the patent system itse...Daugiau...
Introduces contextual search within a computational framework based on contextual variables, contextual factors and statistical models. The book describes how statistical models can process contextual variables to infer the contextual factors u...Daugiau...
The past decade has witnessed tremendous interest in expertise retrieval as an emerging subdiscipline in information retrieval. This survey highlights advances in models and algorithms relevant to this field. The authors draw connections among...Daugiau...
Reviews the published literature on searching the blogosphere. In particular, the authors describe the phenomenon of blogging and the motivations for searching for information on blogs. The book covers both the search tasks underlying blog sear...Daugiau...
Provides a comprehensive overview of research in summarization, including the more traditional efforts in sentence extraction as well as the most novel recent approaches for determining important content, for domain and genre specific summariza...Daugiau...
Provides a comprehensive summary of the research done to date, looks at some of the challenges still to be faced, and suggests some directions for future research on this important and current topic....Daugiau...
Considers the effects of the adversarial relationship between search systems and those who wish to manipulate them, a field known as Adversarial Information Retrieval. The book shows that search engine spammers create false content and mislea...Daugiau...
Offers a survey of the science and practice of web crawling. This survey outlines the fundamental challenges and describes state-of-the-art models and solutions. It also highlights avenues for future work....Daugiau...
Presents the Probabilistic Relevance Framework from a conceptual point of view, describing the probabilistic modelling assumptions behind the framework and the different ranking algorithms that result from its application: the binary independen...Daugiau...