Finding Out About - A Cognitive Perspective on Search Engine Technology and the Www

Informationen zum Autor Richard K. Belew is a professor in the Computer Science and Engineering departments at The University of California, San Diego. He is an associate editor of the journal Evolutionary Computation and co-editor (with Melanie Mitchell) of Adaptive Individuals in Populations (1996). Klappentext Introduces the idea of Finding Out About (FOA) as the process of actively seeking relevant information! and many of its facets - creating a good characterisation of what the user seeks! inferring semantic features of content from syntactic clues contained in documents! and evaluating whether search engines are performing well. Zusammenfassung Introduces the idea of Finding Out About (FOA) as the process of actively seeking relevant information! and many of its facets - creating a good characterisation of what the user seeks! inferring semantic features of content from syntactic clues contained in documents! and evaluating whether search engines are performing well. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Overview; 2. Extracting lexical features; 3. Weighting and matching against indices; 4. Assessing the retrieval; 5. Mathematical foundations; 6. Inference beyond the index; 7. Adaptive information retrieval; 8. Conclusions and future directions.

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• Authors: Richard K. Belew, Richard K. (University of California Belew, Belew Richard K.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.07.2008
• EAN: 9780521734462
• ISBN: 978-0-521-73446-2
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks; Human-Computer Interaction, Human–computer interaction, COMPUTERS / Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Internet Guides & Online Services, Internet guides and online services, COMPUTERS / Internet / Web Services & APIs