Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines

Livro digital

Título:
Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines

Autor:
Stefan Böttcher, Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon V. Cormack

Categoria:
Tecnologia > Dados

Doador:
Raffaello D. N.

Sinopse:
Search engines feel simple at the query box and brutally complex underneath. This book starts by building that hidden machinery from first principles, with a table of contents that moves from Foundations and Basic Techniques into Tokens and Terms, so the reader sees how retrieval begins with text, indexing, and scoring before anything else works. It then goes deep into the real engine room: inverted indices, query processing, compression, dynamic updates, probabilistic retrieval, language models, categorization, fusion, and learning to rank. Later chapters widen the lens to evaluation, efficiency, parallel IR, Web search, and XML retrieval, which makes the scope broader than a narrow indexing manual. The result is a practical, research-informed guide to how search systems are implemented and judged. Its value is not just theory, but the bridge between algorithms, experiments, and system design, making it especially strong for readers who want to understand what makes search systems fast, accurate, and measurable.