Handbook of Information Science

Wolfgang G. Stock; Mechtild Stock

Published by De Gruyter Saur 2013

Handbook of Information Science

Wolfgang G. Stock and Mechtild Stock

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110235005

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About this book

Dealing with information is one of the vital skills in the 21^stcentury. It takes a fair degree of information savvy to create, represent and supply information as well as to search for and retrieve relevant knowledge. How does information (documents, pieces of knowledge) have to be organized in order to be retrievable? What role does metadata play? What are search engines on the Web, or in corporate intranets, and how do they work? How must one deal with natural language processing and tools of knowledge organization, such as thesauri, classification systems, and ontologies? How useful is social tagging? How valuable are intellectually created abstracts and automatically prepared extracts? Which empirical methods allow for user research and which for the evaluation of information systems? This Handbook is a basic work of information science, providing a comprehensive overview of the current state of information retrieval and knowledge representation. It addresses readers from all professions and scientific disciplines, but particularly scholars, practitioners and students of Information Science, Library Science, Computer Science, Information Management, and Knowledge Management. This Handbook is a suitable reference work for Public and Academic Libraries.

Author / Editor information

Wolfgang G. Stock, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, und Mechtild Stock, Kerpen.

Reviews

Wolfgang and Mechtild Stock's Handbook of Information Science [...] weighs 3lbs 4 oz (1.47 kg) and has 901 pages, the end result of sustained elucubration and Stakhanovite resolve on part of the authors.
(Blaise Cronin, Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology 64 (11): 2189, 2013).

Inhaltlich bietet das Buch das, was man von einem Handbuch erwarten darf [...] Den Autoren ist es gelungen, eine interessante Mischung von Beiträgen zu den jeweiligen Themenbereichen zu verfassen [...] Die Anschaffung lohnt sich für alle Dozierenden, die das Fach "Einführung in die Informationswissenschaft" unterrichten, denn das Buch regt zur Auseinandersetzung mit der eigenen Vorlesungskonzeption an.
(Stephan Holländer, Password 10/2013, Seite 13)

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Part A: Introduction to Information Science
A.1 What is Information Science? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
A.2 Knowledge and Information Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
A.3 Information and Understanding Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
A.4 Documents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
A.5 Information Literacy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
Information Retrieval
Part B: Propaedeutics of Information Retrieval
B.1 History of Information Retrieval Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
B.2 Basic Ideas of Information Retrieval Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
B.3 Relevance and Pertinence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
B.4 Crawlers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
B.5 Typology of Information Retrieval Systems Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
B.6 Architecture of Retrieval Systems Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Part C: Natural Language Processing
C.1 n-Grams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
C.2 Words Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
C.3 Phrases—Named Entities—Compounds— Semantic Environments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
C.4 Anaphora Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
C.5 Fault-Tolerant Retrieval Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Part D: Boolean Retrieval Systems
D.1 Boolean Retrieval Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
D.2 Search Strategies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
D.3 Weighted Boolean Retrieval Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266
Part E: Classical Retrieval Models
E.1 Text Statistics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
E.2 Vector Space Model Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
E.3 Probabilistic Model Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
E.4 Retrieval of Non-Textual Documents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	312
Part F: Web Information Retrieval
F.1 Link Topology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
F.2 Ranking Factors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
F.3 Personalized Retrieval Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
F.4 Topic Detection and Tracking Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	366
Part G: Special Problems of Information Retrieval
G.1 Social Networks and “Small Worlds” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377
G.2 Visual Retrieval Tools Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
G.3 Cross-Language Information Retrieval Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399
G.4 (Semi-)Automatic Query Expansion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	408
G.5 Recommender Systems Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	416
G.6 Passage Retrieval and Question Answering Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	423
G.7 Emotional Retrieval and Sentiment Analysis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	430
Part H: Empirical Investigations on Information Retrieval
H.1 Informetric Analyses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	445
H.2 Analytical Tools and Methods Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	453
H.3 User and Usage Research Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	465
H.4 Evaluation of Retrieval Systems Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	481
Knowledge Representation
Part I: Propaedeutics of Knowledge Representation
I.1 History of Knowledge Representation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	503
I.2 Basic Ideas of Knowledge Representation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	519
I.3 Concepts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	531
I.4 Semantic Relations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	547
Part J: Metadata
J.1 Bibliographic Metadata Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	567
J.2 Metadata about Objects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	586
J.3 Non-Topical Information Filters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	598
Part K: Folksonomies
K.1 Social Tagging Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	611
K.2 Tag Gardening Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	621
K.3 Folksonomies and Relevance Ranking Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	629
Part L: Knowledge Organization Systems
L.1 Nomenclature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	635
L.2 Classification Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	647
L.3 Thesaurus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	675
L.4 Ontology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	697
L.5 Faceted Knowledge Organization Systems Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	707
L.6 Crosswalks between Knowledge Organization Systems Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	719
Part M: Text-Oriented Knowledge Organization Methods
M.1 Text-Word Method Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	735
M.2 Citation Indexing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	744
Part N: Indexing
N.1 Intellectual Indexing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	759
N.2 Automatic Indexing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	772
Part O: Summarization
O.1 Abstracts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	783
O.2 Extracts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	796
Part P: Empirical Investigations on Knowledge Representation
P.1 Evaluation of Knowledge Organization Systems Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	809
P.2 Evaluation of Indexing and Summarization Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	817
Part Q: Glossary and Indexes
Q.1 Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	829
Q.2 List of Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	851
Q.3 List of Tables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	854
Q.4 List of Figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	855
Q.5 Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	860
Q.6 Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	879

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Saur
Audience: Librarians, other information professionals, LIS-students, computer scientists and other information professionals
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 901
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 10
- Tables: 19
Keywords: Information Science

eBook

Published: July 31, 2013
ISBN: 9783110235005

Hardcover

Published: July 17, 2013
ISBN: 9783110234992

Paperback

Published: February 26, 2015
ISBN: 9783110373646