Database Design For Information Retrieval

Author : Raya Fidel
Publisher : New York : Wiley
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Database Design for Information Retrieval written by Raya Fidel and published by New York : Wiley. This book was released on 1987 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing a database involves four distinct functions, each building on the previous ones: analysis, design, coding, and testing. In the analysis stage, the database designer defines what a database should do to make it most useful to potential users by studying user needs, or data requirements analysis, and documentation. During design, a process that defines how a database will perform its tasks, the designer concentrates on software and hardware considerations. Coding is the actual implementation of the design. Testing is carried out before full-scale installation to examine how well it will perform. This book is about analysis, explaining how to perform data requirements analysis and how to represent the outcome of this analysis in a formal and comprehensive model that is useful for software and hardware considerations. This book is suitable as a textbook or as a handbook for systems analysts, end users, or information specialists.

Author : Dagobert Soergel
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN 13 : 9780126542615
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organizing Information written by Dagobert Soergel and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 1985-10-12 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information science, textbook on the theory of information systems, esp. Data base conception and information retrieval methodology - covers systems analysis approaches, data structures, thesaurus construction, indexing, search strategies, etc. Annotated bibliography, illustrations.

Author : Chris Auld
Publisher : Apress
ISBN 13 : 1430253770
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practical Web Database Design written by Chris Auld and published by Apress. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although many web professionals will have incorporated a database into a web site before, they may not have much experience of designing them - this book will teach you all you need to know about designing a database for use with a web site or web application. From first principles to designing a successful web database, this book will show you how to get the most out of database design. From the Publisher Unlike other database design books in the market, this one focuses on design of databases for use on the Web. Web databases benefit from good general database design principles, but also have their own set of caveats, which must be considered for their design to be truly successful. This book covers both the general, and the web-specific database principles.

Author : Stefano Ceri
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642393144
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Web Information Retrieval written by Stefano Ceri and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-08-30 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the proliferation of huge amounts of (heterogeneous) data on the Web, the importance of information retrieval (IR) has grown considerably over the last few years. Big players in the computer industry, such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!, are the primary contributors of technology for fast access to Web-based information; and searching capabilities are now integrated into most information systems, ranging from business management software and customer relationship systems to social networks and mobile phone applications. Ceri and his co-authors aim at taking their readers from the foundations of modern information retrieval to the most advanced challenges of Web IR. To this end, their book is divided into three parts. The first part addresses the principles of IR and provides a systematic and compact description of basic information retrieval techniques (including binary, vector space and probabilistic models as well as natural language search processing) before focusing on its application to the Web. Part two addresses the foundational aspects of Web IR by discussing the general architecture of search engines (with a focus on the crawling and indexing processes), describing link analysis methods (specifically Page Rank and HITS), addressing recommendation and diversification, and finally presenting advertising in search (the main source of revenues for search engines). The third and final part describes advanced aspects of Web search, each chapter providing a self-contained, up-to-date survey on current Web research directions. Topics in this part include meta-search and multi-domain search, semantic search, search in the context of multimedia data, and crowd search. The book is ideally suited to courses on information retrieval, as it covers all Web-independent foundational aspects. Its presentation is self-contained and does not require prior background knowledge. It can also be used in the context of classic courses on data management, allowing the instructor to cover both structured and unstructured data in various formats. Its classroom use is facilitated by a set of slides, which can be downloaded from www.search-computing.org.

Author : James D. Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976354703
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Information Retrieval Design written by James D. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Information retrieval. 2. Indexing. 3. Database design.

Author : Cornelis Joost van Rijsbergen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461556171
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Information Retrieval: Uncertainty and Logics written by Cornelis Joost van Rijsbergen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, there have been several attempts to define a logic for information retrieval (IR). The aim was to provide a rich and uniform representation of information and its semantics with the goal of improving retrieval effectiveness. The basis of a logical model for IR is the assumption that queries and documents can be represented effectively by logical formulae. To retrieve a document, an IR system has to infer the formula representing the query from the formula representing the document. This logical interpretation of query and document emphasizes that relevance in IR is an inference process. The use of logic to build IR models enables one to obtain models that are more general than earlier well-known IR models. Indeed, some logical models are able to represent within a uniform framework various features of IR systems such as hypermedia links, multimedia data, and user's knowledge. Logic also provides a common approach to the integration of IR systems with logical database systems. Finally, logic makes it possible to reason about an IR model and its properties. This latter possibility is becoming increasingly more important since conventional evaluation methods, although good indicators of the effectiveness of IR systems, often give results which cannot be predicted, or for that matter satisfactorily explained. However, logic by itself cannot fully model IR. The success or the failure of the inference of the query formula from the document formula is not enough to model relevance in IR. It is necessary to take into account the uncertainty inherent in such an inference process. In 1986, Van Rijsbergen proposed the uncertainty logical principle to model relevance as an uncertain inference process. When proposing the principle, Van Rijsbergen was not specific about which logic and which uncertainty theory to use. As a consequence, various logics and uncertainty theories have been proposed and investigated. The choice of an appropriate logic and uncertainty mechanism has been a main research theme in logical IR modeling leading to a number of logical IR models over the years. Information Retrieval: Uncertainty and Logics contains a collection of exciting papers proposing, developing and implementing logical IR models. This book is appropriate for use as a text for a graduate-level course on Information Retrieval or Database Systems, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry.

Author : John Willitts
Publisher : Library Association Publishing (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Database Design and Construction written by John Willitts and published by Library Association Publishing (UK). This book was released on 1992 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is a comprehensive, practically orientated textbook on the planning and design of relational databases, through project conception to program design. In addition, it contains a substantial section which describes the architecture of information retrieval systems. It takes as its focal points: - relational databases, using programmable database systems (such as Ingres or dBase) - textual databases, using information retrieval systems. Increasingly information professionals are designing and maintaining database applications. But frequently they have not been trained in the strategies, principles and techniques which underpin the design and construction of a robust database application. Using an open learning approach this book aims to assist the reader through numerous case studies as well as self assessment questions and suggested responses.

Author : Christopher D. Manning
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139472100
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Information Retrieval written by Christopher D. Manning and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Class-tested and coherent, this textbook teaches classical and web information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text classification and text clustering from basic concepts. It gives an up-to-date treatment of all aspects of the design and implementation of systems for gathering, indexing, and searching documents; methods for evaluating systems; and an introduction to the use of machine learning methods on text collections. All the important ideas are explained using examples and figures, making it perfect for introductory courses in information retrieval for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in computer science. Based on feedback from extensive classroom experience, the book has been carefully structured in order to make teaching more natural and effective. Slides and additional exercises (with solutions for lecturers) are also available through the book's supporting website to help course instructors prepare their lectures.

Author : Edward Sciore
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030338363
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Database Design and Implementation written by Edward Sciore and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook examines database systems from the viewpoint of a software developer. This perspective makes it possible to investigate why database systems are the way they are. It is of course important to be able to write queries, but it is equally important to know how they are processed. We e.g. don’t want to just use JDBC; we also want to know why the API contains the classes and methods that it does. We need a sense of how hard is it to write a disk cache or logging facility. And what exactly is a database driver, anyway? The first two chapters provide a brief overview of database systems and their use. Chapter 1 discusses the purpose and features of a database system and introduces the Derby and SimpleDB systems. Chapter 2 explains how to write a database application using Java. It presents the basics of JDBC, which is the fundamental API for Java programs that interact with a database. In turn, Chapters 3-11 examine the internals of a typical database engine. Each chapter covers a different database component, starting with the lowest level of abstraction (the disk and file manager) and ending with the highest (the JDBC client interface); further, the respective chapter explains the main issues concerning the component, and considers possible design decisions. As a result, the reader can see exactly what services each component provides and how it interacts with the other components in the system. By the end of this part, s/he will have witnessed the gradual development of a simple but completely functional system. The remaining four chapters then focus on efficient query processing, and focus on the sophisticated techniques and algorithms that can replace the simple design choices described earlier. Topics include indexing, sorting, intelligent buffer usage, and query optimization. This text is intended for upper-level undergraduate or beginning graduate courses in Computer Science. It assumes that the reader is comfortable with basic Java programming; advanced Java concepts (such as RMI and JDBC) are fully explained in the text. The respective chapters are complemented by “end-of-chapter readings” that discuss interesting ideas and research directions that went unmentioned in the text, and provide references to relevant web pages, research articles, reference manuals, and books. Conceptual and programming exercises are also included at the end of each chapter. Students can apply their conceptual knowledge by examining the SimpleDB (a simple but fully functional database system created by the author and provided online) code and modifying it.

Author : W. Bruce Croft
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0306470195
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advances in Information Retrieval written by W. Bruce Croft and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-11 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) was formed in the Computer Science Department ofthe University ofMassachusetts, Amherst in 1992. The core support for the Center came from a National Science Foun- tion State/Industry/University Cooperative Research Center(S/IUCRC) grant, although there had been a sizeable information retrieval (IR) research group for over 10 years prior to that grant. Thebasic goal ofthese Centers is to combine basic research, applied research, and technology transfer. The CIIR has been successful in each of these areas, in that it has produced over 270 research papers, has been involved in many successful government and industry collaborations, and has had a significant role in high-visibility Internet sites and start-ups. As a result of these efforts, the CIIR has become known internationally as one of the leading research groups in the area of information retrieval. The CIIR focuses on research that results in more effective and efficient access and discovery in large, heterogeneous, distributed, text and multimedia databases. The scope of the work that is done in the CIIR is broad and goes significantly beyond “traditional” areas of information retrieval such as retrieval models, cross-lingual search, and automatic query expansion. The research includes both low-level systems issues such as the design of protocols and architectures for distributed search, as well as more human-centered topics such as user interface design, visualization and data mining with text, and multimedia retrieval.