Information Access through Search Engines and Digital Libraries

✍ Scribed by Maristella Agosti (auth.), Maristella Agosti (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 206
• Series: The Information Retrieval Series 22
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Information Management Systems group at the University of Padua, led by Maristella Agosti, has been a major contributor to information retrieval (IR) and digital libraries for nearly twenty years. This group has gained an excellent reputation in the IR community and has produced some of the best-known IR researchers, whose work spans a broad range of topics.

The papers in this book deal with e.g. automated text categorizations, web link analysis algorithms, retrieval in multimedia digital libraries, and multilingual information retrieval. The presentation of original research results built on the past work of the group which at the same time summarizes past findings and opens up new directions and new areas of possible future research and cooperation will appeal to researchers and developers in institutions and companies working on search engines and information retrieval algorithms.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
Information Access using the Guide of User Requirements....Pages 1-12
From Linking Text to Linking Crimes: Information Retrieval, But Not As You Know It....Pages 13-42
Modeling Retrieval and Navigation in Context....Pages 43-57
Two Algorithms for Probabilistic Stemming....Pages 59-74
Automated Text Categorization: The Two-Dimensional Probabilistic Model....Pages 75-95
Analysis of Web Link Analysis Algorithms: The Mathematics of Ranking....Pages 97-111
Digital Annotations: a Formal Model and its Applications....Pages 113-146
Music Indexing and Retrieval for Multimedia Digital Libraries....Pages 147-170
A Statistical and Graphical Methodology for Comparing Bilingual to Monolingual Cross-Language Information Retrieval....Pages 171-188
Back Matter....Pages 189-196

✦ Subjects

Information Storage and Retrieval; Document Preparation and Text Processing; Library Science