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Record Nr.

UNINA9910511889303321

Titolo

Interactive information seeking, behaviour and retrieval / / edited by Ian Ruthven and Diane Kelly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Facet, , 2011

ISBN

1-85604-974-4

Descrizione fisica

XXXVII, 296 s : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

RuthvenIan <1968->

KellyDiane (Professor)

Disciplina

025.0425

Soggetti

Information retrieval

Information behavior

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Interactive information retrieval : ; history and background / Colleen Cool and Nicholas J. Belkin -- Information behavior and seeking / Peiling Wang -- Task-based information searching and retrieval / Elaine G. Toms -- Approaches to investigating information interaction and behaviour / Raya Fidel -- Information representation / Mark D. Smucker -- Access models / Edie Rasmussen -- Evaluation / Kalervo Järvelin -- Interfaces for information retrieval / Max Wilson -- Interactive techniques / Ryen W. White -- Web retrieval, ranking and personalization / Jaime Teevan and Susan Dumais -- Recommendation, collaboration and social search / David M. Nichols and Michael B. Twidale -- Multimedia : ; behaviour, interfaces and interaction / Haiming Liu, Suzanne Little and Stefan Rüger -- Multimedia : ; information representation and access / Suzanne Little, Evan Brown and Stefan Rüger.

Sommario/riassunto

Information retrieval (IR) is a complex human activity supported by sophisticated systems. This book covers the whole spectrum of information retrieval, including: history and background information; behaviour and seeking task-based information; searching and retrieval approaches to investigating information; and, evaluation interfaces for IR.