The Geometry of Information Retrieval

by C.J. van Rijsbergen

Information retrieval, IR, the science of extracting information from any potential source, can be viewed in a number of ways: logical, probabilistic and vector space models are some of the most important. In this book, the author, one of the leading researchers in the area, shows how these views can be reforged in the same framework used to formulate the general principles of quantum mechanics. All the usual quantum-mechanical notions have their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521838053
• ISBN13: 9780521838054
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"