Scalability Challenges in Web Search Engines

B Barla Cambazoglu

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• In this book, we aim to provide a fairly comprehensive overview of the scalability and efficiency challenges in large-scale web search engines. More s... Lees meer

New Concepts in Digital Reference

R David Lankes

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• Let us start with a simple scenario: a man asks a woman "how high is Mount Everest?" The woman replies "29,029 feet." Nothing could be simpler. Now le... Lees meer

On the Efficient Determination of Most Near Neighbors

Mark S Manasse

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• The time-worn aphorism "close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades" is clearly inadequate. Close also counts in golf, shuffleboard, archery, da... Lees meer

Measuring User Engagement

Mounia Lalmas, Heather O'Brien, Elad Yom-Tov

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• User engagement refers to the quality of the user experience that emphasizes the positive aspects of interacting with an online application and, in pa... Lees meer

Knowledge Management (Km) Processes in Organizations

Claire McInerney, Michael E D Koenig

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• Knowledge Management (KM) is an effort to increase useful knowledge in the organization. It is a natural outgrowth of late twentieth century movements... Lees meer

Search-User Interface Design

Max Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• Search User Interfaces (SUIs) represent the gateway between people who have a task to complete, and the repositories of information and data stored ar... Lees meer

Word Association Thematic Analysis

Michael Thelwall

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• Many research projects involve analyzing sets of texts from the social web or elsewhere to get insights into issues, opinions, interests, news discuss... Lees meer

The Taxobook

Marjorie M K Hlava

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• This book is the third of a three-part series on taxonomies, and covers putting your taxonomy into use in as many ways as possible to maximize retriev... Lees meer

Understanding and Evaluating Search Experience

Maria Stone

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• This book is intended for anyone interested in learning more about how search works and how it is evaluated. We all use search--it's a familiar utilit... Lees meer

Faceted Search

Daniel Tunkelang

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• We live in an information age that requires us, more than ever, to represent, access, and use information. Over the last several decades, we have deve... Lees meer

Exploring Context in Information Behavior

Naresh Kumar Agarwal

• Hardcover | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• The field of human information behavior runs the gamut of processes from the realization of a need or gap in understanding, to the search for informat... Lees meer

Framing Privacy in Digital Collections with Ethical Decision Making

Virginia Dressler

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• As digital collections continue to grow, the underlying technologies to serve up content also continue to expand and develop. As such, new challenges ... Lees meer

Social Vulnerability to Covid-19

• Hardcover | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• This book provides an overview of the impact of the pandemic in China and the USA and presents a research agenda for use, access, and adoption of info... Lees meer

Reading and Writing the Electronic Book

Catherine Marshall

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• Developments over the last twenty years have fueled considerable speculation about the future of the book and of reading itself. This book begins with... Lees meer

Information and Human Values

Kenneth Fleischmann

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• This book seeks to advance our understanding of the relationship between information and human values by synthesizing the complementary but typically ... Lees meer

The Answer Machine

Susan Feldman

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• The Answer Machine is a practical, non-technical guide to the technologies behind information seeking and analysis. It introduces search and content a... Lees meer

Digital Library Technologies

Edward a Fox, Ricardo Da Silva Torres

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• Digital libraries (DLs) have introduced new technologies, as well as leveraging, enhancing, and integrating related technologies, since the early 1990... Lees meer

Video Structure Meaning

Brian C O'Connor

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• For over a century, motion pictures have entertained us, occasionally educated us, and even served a few specialized fields of study. Now, however, wi... Lees meer

Social Informatics Evolving

Pnina Fichman, Madelyn R Sanfilippo, Howard Rosenbaum

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• Thus, we divide SI research into five major periods: an emergence stage, when various forms of SI emerged around the globe, an early period of foundat... Lees meer

Automatic Disambiguation of Author Names in Bibliographic Repositories

Anderson A Ferreira, Marcos André Gonçalves, Alberto H F Laender

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• This book deals with a hard problem that is inherent to human language: ambiguity. In particular, we focus on author name ambiguity, a type of ambigui... Lees meer

Analysis and Visualization of Citation Networks

Dangzhi Zhao, Andreas Strotmann

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• Citation analysis--the exploration of reference patterns in the scholarly and scientific literature--has long been applied in a number of social scien... Lees meer

Documenting the Future: Navigating Provenance Metadata Standards

Rhiannon Bettivia, Yi-Yun Cheng, Michael Robert Gryk

• Hardcover | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• This book explores provenance , the study and documentation of how things come to be. Traditionally defined as the origins, source, or ownership of an... Lees meer

Task Intelligence for Search and Recommendation

Chirag Shah, Ryen W White

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• While great strides have been made in the field of search and recommendation, there are still challenges and opportunities to address information acce... Lees meer

Video Structure Meaning

Brian C O'Connor, Richard L Anderson

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• For over a century, motion pictures have entertained us, occasionally educated us, and even served a few specialized fields of study. Now, however, wi... Lees meer