Readings in information retrieval / 
edited by Karen Sparck Jones, Peter Willett. 
 - San Francisco, Calif. :  Morgan Kaufman,  c1997. 
 - xv, 589 p. :  ill. ;  28 cm. 
 - Morgan Kaufmann series in multimedia information and systems .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
<br/><br/>The thesaurus approach to information retrieval / T. Joyce and R. M. Needham -- The automatic derivation of information retrieval encodements from machine-readable texts / H. P. Luhn -- Indexing and abstracting by association. Part I / L. B. Doyle -- On relevance, probabilistic indexing and information retrieval / M. E. Maron and J. L. Kuhns -- The cranfield tests on index language devices / C. W. Cleverdon -- Computer evaluation of indexing and text processing / G. Salton and M. E. Lesk. The concept of "aboutness" in subject indexing / W. J. Hutchins -- The testing of index language devices / C. W. Cleverdon and J. Mills -- Thesaurus / D. J. Foskett -- Using problem structure for driving human-computer dialogues / P. J. Daniels, H. M. Brooks and N. J. Belkin -- Relevance: a review of and a framework for thinking on the notion in information science / T. Saracevic. A study for information seeking and retrieving.I. Background and methodology / T. Saracevic, P. Kantor, A. Y. Chamis, and D. Trivison -- On selecting a measure of retrieval effectiveness. Part I / W. S. Cooper -- The pragmatics of informaiton retrieval experimentation, revisited / J. Tague-Sutcliffe -- Presenting results of experimental retrieval comparisons / E. M. Keen -- MEDLARS: report on the evaluation of its operating efficiency / F. W. Lancaster -- The TREC conferences / D. K. Harman. Getting beyond boole / W. S. Cooper -- A non-classical logic of information retrieval / C. J. van Rijsbergen -- A vector space model for automatic indexing / G. Salton, A. Wong, and C. S. Yang -- The probability ranking principle in IR / S. E. Robertson -- Inference networks for document retrieval / H. Turtle and W. B. Croft -- ASK for information retrieval. Part I. Background and theory / N. J. Belkin, R. N. Oddy and H. M. Brooks. An algorithm for suffix stripping / M. F. Porter -- Robust text processing in automated information retrieval / T. Strzalkowski -- Term-weighting approaches in automatic text retrieval / G. Salton and C. Buckley -- Search term relevance weighting given little relevance information / K. Sparck Jones -- Using probabilistic models of document retrieval without relevance information / W. B. Croft and D. J. Harper -- Some simple effective approximations to the 2-poisson model for probabilistic weighted retreival / S. E. Robertson and S. Walker -- Improving retrieval performance by relevance feedback / G. Salton and C. Buckley -- Using interdocument similarity information in document retrieval systems / A. Griffiths, H. C. Luckhurst and P. Willett. The SMART and SIRE experimental retrieval systems / G. Salton and M. J. McGill -- Architecture of an expert system for composite document analysis, representation, and retrieval / E. A. Fox and R. K. France -- User-friendly system instead of user-friendly front-ends / D. K. Harman -- The Okapi Online Catalogue Research Projects / S. Walker -- TREC and TIPSTER experiments with INQUERY / J. P. Callan, W. B. Croft and J. S. Broglio -- RUBRIC: a system for rule-based information retrieval / B. P. McCune, R. M. Tong and J. Dean -- TARGET and FREESTYLE: DIALOG and mead join the relevance ranks / C. Tenopit and P. Cahn. A hypertext environment for interacting with large databases / M. Agosti, G. Gradenigo and P. G. Marchetti -- Automatic analysis, theme generation, and summarization of machine-readable texts / G. Salton, J. Allan, C. Buckley and A. Singhal -- Querying across languages: a dictionary-based approach to multilingual information retrieval / D. A. Hull and G. Grefenstette -- Experiments in spoken document retrieval / K. Sparck Jones, G. J. F. Jones, J. T. Foote and S. J. Young -- Video parsing, retrieval and browsing: an integrated and content-based solution / H. J. Zhang, C. Y. Low, S. W. Smoliar and J. H. Wu -- The automatic indexing system AIR/PHYS - from research to application / P. Biebricher, N. Fuhr, G. Lustig, M. Schwantner, and G. Knorz -- A new story categorization system / P. J. Hayes, L. E. Knecht, and M. J. Cellio -- Conceptual information extraction and retrieval from natural language input / L. F. Rau -- A production rule system for messages summarization / E. Marsh, H. Hamburger and R. Grishman -- The application of linguistic processing to automatic abstract generation / F. C. Johnson, C. D. Paice, W. J. Black and A. P. Neal. Historical note: information retrieval and the future of an illusion / D. R. Swanson. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1558604545 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>97018612 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Information retrieval.<br/>Information storage and retrieval systems.