Class-tested and coherent, this textbook teaches classical and web information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text classification and

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Focuses on a subset of visual information retrieval (VIR) problems where the media consists of images, and the indexing and retrieval methods are based on the p

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Many information retrieval (IR) systems suffer from a radical variance in performance when responding to users' queries. Even for systems that succeed very well