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

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

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

Predicting Information Retrieval Performance

Robert M Losee

• Hardcover | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• Information Retrieval performance measures are usually retrospective in nature, representing the effectiveness of an experimental process. However, in... Lees meer

Building a Better World with Our Information

William Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• Personal Information Management (PIM) is the art of getting things done in our lives through information. How do we - can we better - manage our infor... Lees meer

Measuring User Engagement

Mounia Lalmas

• 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

Images in Social Media

ØRnager Susanne

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• This book focuses on the methodologies, organization, and communication of digital image collection research that utilizes social media content. ("Ima... 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

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

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

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 utility... Lees meer

Social Media and Library Services

Lorri Mon

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• This Second Edition presents research, theory, and practical applications for social media and libraries, providing insights into the life of the soci... 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

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

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

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

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

XML Retrieval

Mounia Lalmas

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• Documents usually have a content and a structure. The content refers to the text of the document, whereas the structure refers to how a document is lo... 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

Compatibility Modeling

Xuemeng Song

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• Nowadays, fashion has become an essential aspect of people's daily life. As each outfit usually comprises several complementary items, such as a top, ... 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

Interactive IR User Study Design, Evaluation, and Reporting

Jiqun Liu

• Paperback | Engels | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and S
• Since user study design has been widely applied in search interactions and information retrieval (IR) systems evaluation studies, a deep reflection an... Lees meer