Interactive Information-seeking Behaviour and Retrieval

Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword - Tefko Saracevic 1. Interactive information retrieval: history and background - Colleen Cool and Nicholas J. Belkin 2. Information behavior and seeking - Peiling Wang 3. Task-based information searching and retrieval - Elaine G. Toms 4. Approaches to investigating information interaction and behaviour - Raya Fidel 5. Information representation - Mark D. Smucker 6. Access models - Edie Rasmussen 7. Evaluation - Kalervo Järvelin 8. Interfaces for information retrieval - Max Wilson 9. Interactive techniques - Ryen W. White 10. Web retrieval, ranking and personalization - Jaime Teevan and Susan Dumais 11. Recommendation, collaboration and social search - David M. Nichols and Michael B. Twidale 12. Multimedia: behaviour, interfaces and interaction - Haiming Liu, Suzanne Little and Stefan Rüger 13. Multimedia: information representation and access - Suzanne Little, Evan Brown and Stefan Rüger.

Product details

• Authors: Ian Ruthven
• Assisted by: Diane Kelly (Editor), Kelly Diane (Editor), Ian Ruthven (Editor), Ruthven Ian (Editor)
• Publisher: Facet Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.08.2011
• EAN: 9781856047074
• ISBN: 978-1-85604-707-4
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Series: The Facet Information Retrieval Collection
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; Library & Information Sciences, Library and information sciences / Museology