文档介绍：Information Retrieval Architecture and Algorithms
Gerald Kowalski
Information Retrieval
Architecture and Algorithms
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Gerald Kowalski
Ashburn, VA, USA
ISBN 978-1-4419-7715-1âââ e-ISBN 978-1-4419-7716-8
DOI -1-4419-7716-8
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This book is dedicated to my grandchildren,
Adeline, , Mollie Kate and Riley who
are the future
Jerry Kowalski
Preface
Information Retrieval has radically changed over the last 25Âyears. When I first
started teaching Information Retrieval and developing large Information Retrieval
systems in the 1980s it was easy to cover the area in a single semester course. Most
of the discussion was theoretical with testing done on small databases and only
a small subset of the theory was able to be implemented mercial systems.
There were not massive amounts of data in the right digital format for search. Since
2000, the field of Information retrieval has undergone a major transformation driv-
en by massive amounts of new data (., , Facebook, etc.) that needs to be
searched, new hardware technologies that m