Introduction modern information retrieval

Basic concepts of Information retrieval systems
Introduction
Purpose
Functions
Components
Kinds of information retrieval systems
Design issues
Design phases
References
Database technology
Introduction
Data
The database
Records and fields
Properties of databases
Kinds of databases
Database technoiogy
The deveiopment of databases in an information
retrievai environment
Discussion
References
Bibliographic formats
introduction
Bibiiographic records
Integrated database approach
ISO 2709: Format for Bibliographic Information Interchange
MARC format
UNIMARC format
The Common Communication Format
Discussion
References
Cataloguing and metadata
Introduction
Cataloguing
Metadata
Summary
References
Subject analysis and representation
Introduction
Classification
Bibliographic Classification
Classification of internet resources
Subject analysis
Subject indexing
Exhaustivity and specificity
Manual indexing
Pre-coordinate indexing systems
Post-coordinate indexing systems
Problems of manual indexing
Theory of indexing
Discussion
References
Automatic Indexing and file organization
Introduction
The process of indexing
Automatic classification
Index file organization
Inverted file
Sequential access
Alternative text retrieval structures
Discussion
References
Vocabulary control
Introduction
Controlled vs natural indexing
Vocabulary control tools
Guidelines for developing a thesaurus
Criteria for evaluating a thesaurus
Use of thesauri in online information retrieval
References
8 Abstracts and abstracting
Abstracts
Types of abstract
Qualities of abstracts
Uses of abstracts
The art of abstracting
Automatic abstracting
Recent works on text summarization
Discussion
References
9 Searching and retrieval
introduction
The search strategy and its prerequisites
The pre-search interview
The searching process
Retrieval models
Alternative information retrieval models
Search facilities offered by most text retrieval systems
Discussion
References
10 Users of information retrieval
Introduction
Users and their nature
Types of information needs
Information needs in different areas of activity
Information seeking behaviour of users
What we need to know about users
User studies
Possible sources of information about users
References
11 User-centred models of information retrieval
Introduction
Information seeking
Human information behaviour models
User-centred information search models
Discussion
References
12 User interfaces
Introduction
The four-phase framework for interface design
Information seeking and user interfaces
User interfaces and visualization
User interfaces of some information retrieval systems
References
13 Evaluation of Information retrieval systems
Introduction
The purpose of evaluation
Evaluation criteria
The steps of evaluation
New retrieval parameters
References
14 Evaluation experiments
introduction
The Cranfield tests
MEDLARS
The SMART retrieval experiment
The STAIRS project
Limitations of early evaluation studies
TREC
References
15 Online and CD-ROM information retrieval
Introduction
Online searching
CD-ROM databases
Summary
References
16 Multimedia information retrieval
Introduction
Multimedia information retrieval
Standards
Summary
References
17 Hypertext and markup languages
Introduction
Hypertext
Markup languages
Discussion
References
18 Web information retrieval
Introduction
Traditional vs web information retrieval
Web information: volume and growth
Access to information on the web: the tools
Web information retrieval: evaluation studies
References
19 Intelligent information retrieval
introduction
intelligent retrieval systems
Artificial intelligence
Expert systems
Kinds of expert systems
Components of expert systems
Historical development of expert systems
Development methodology and approaches
Knowledge elicitation and representation
methods
inference strategies
End-user modelling and interfaces
Development tools
Expert systems for library and information services
Discussion
References
20 Natural language processing and information
retrieval
Introduction
Natural language understanding
Syntactic analysis
Semantic analysis
Pragmatic knowledge
References
21 Natural language processing systems
Introduction
Literature on natural language processing systems
Natural language text processing systems
Natural language user interfaces
Internet, web and digital library applications of natural
language processing systems
Machine translation and cross-language information
retrieval
Summary
References
22 Information retrieval in digital libraries
Introduction
Information resources in digital libraries
The basic design of a digital library
Interoperability
Information retrieval features of selected digital libraries
Common features of information retrieval in digital libraries
Special IR features in DLs
Problems and prospects
Summary
References
23 Trends in information retrieval
Introduction
Evaluation of information retrieval systems
Developments related to the input subsystem
Searching and retrieval
User studies and user modelling
User interfaces
Information retrieval standards and protocols
Information retrieval in the context of web and
digital libraries
Intelligent information retrieval
Evaluation of natural language processing systems
Machine translation
Conclusions
References