Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Who Should Read this Book? -- What is Addressed in the i3-MARKET Book Series? -- What is Covered in this i3-MARKET Part II Book? -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Reference Architecture -- 1.1: Level1 -- 1.2: …
Julian Warner offers a comprehensive overview of information retrieval, synthesizing theories from different disciplines and incorporating such disparate systems as WorldCat and Google into a single, robust theoretical framework.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Over a century ago, William James proposed that people search through memory much as they rummage through a house looking for lost keys. Like other animal species search space, we scour our environments for territory, food, mates, and other goals, including information. We search for items in visual scenes, for historical facts and shopping deals on internet sites, for new friends to add to our…
Every field of history has a basic need for a detailed chronology of what happened: who did what when. In the absence of such a resource, fanciful accounts flourish. This book provides a rich narrative of the early development of online information retrieval systems and services, from 1963 to 1976--a period important to anyone who uses a search engine, online catalog, or large database. Drawing…
A concise introduction to fundamental methods for finding and extracting relevant information from the ever-increasing amounts of biomedical text available.
This book contends that accessing and browsing information and communication are multidimensional and consequential aspects of the information user's entire experience and of general human behavior. Problems in information creation, processing, transmittal, and use often arise from an incomplete conceptualization of the "information seeking" process, where information seeking is viewed as the i…
In this work, Raya Fidel proposes a research approach that bridges the study of human information interaction and the design of information systems: cognitive work analysis (CWA).OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Providing an introduction to the field of applied ontology that is of particular relevance to biomedicine, this thorough book covers theoretical components of ontologies, best practices for ontology design, and examples of biomedical ontologies in use. --OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
A concise introduction to fundamental methods for finding and extracting relevant information from the ever-increasing amounts of biomedical text available.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
This book introduces the field of data science in a practical and accessible manner, using a hands-on approach that assumes no prior knowledge of the subject. The foundational ideas and techniques of data science are provided independently from technology, allowing students to easily develop a firm understanding of the subject without a strong technical background, as well as being presented wi…