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Finding Out About: A Cognitive Perspective on Search Engine Technology and the WWW Book

New technologies for the Internet have radically altered the way we capture cultural knowledge in electronic artifacts, as well as the ways we can communicate it to one another. This text is focused on a key aspect of this information explosion, "finding out about": identifying "documents", which might be Email messages, Web pages, even images or video, that help an individual to learn more about a topic of interest. Helping each student to construct their own "search engine" (using code provided) and evaluate its effectiveness is a key feature of the text.Read More

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    The World Wide Web is rapidly filling with more text than anyone could have imagined a short time ago. However, the task of determining which data is relevant has become appreciably harder. In this original new work Richard Belew brings a cognitive science perspective to the study of information as a computer science discipline. He introduces the idea of Finding Out About (FOA), the process of actively seeking out information relevant to a topic of interest. Belew describes all facets of FOA, ranging from creating a good characterization of what the user seeks to evaluating the successful performance of search engines. His volume clearly shows how to build many of the tools that are useful for searching collections of text and other media. While computer scientists make up the book's primary audience, Belew skillfully presents technical details in a manner that makes important themes accessible to readers more comfortable with words than equations. (A CD is included with the text.)

  • 0521630282
  • 9780521630283
  • Richard K. Belew
  • 12 February 2001
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 384
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