At the beginning of the book

Chapter 1: Overview of Information Retrieval
1.
Information search environment
2.
Key Terms and Concepts
3.
History of Information Retrieval
4.
Main characters

Chapter 2 Information Retrieval Model
1.
Basic concepts
2.
Classification of information retrieval models
3.
Traditional information retrieval model
4.
Query expansion and relevance feedback
5.
Matching search model and linked search model

Chapter 3 Metadata
1.
Metadata Overview
2.
metadata standards
3.
Metadata for indexing

Chapter 4 Index
1.
The concept of indexing
2.
Types of indexes
3.
Automatic indexing
4.
Index of multimedia information
5.
Citation Index

Chapter 5 Abstract
1.
The concept of green
2.
Types of green
3.
Green form
4.
Auto-green

Chapter 6 Categorization
1.
The concept of categorization
2.
Literature classification
3.
Clustering

Chapter 7 Information Retrieval Language
1.
Information Retrieval Language Overview
2.
thesaurus
3.
Subject heading goal

Chapter 8: The Reality of Information Retrieval
1.
Information search process
2.
Information search methods
3.
Integrated Search
4.
Multimedia Search
5.
search engine
6.
Multilingual search

Chapter 9 Search Interface
1.
Definition of interface
2.
Interface design guidelines
3.
Types of user interfaces
4.
Design of the search interface

Chapter 10: Evaluation of Information Retrieval Systems
1.
Evaluation Overview
2.
Performance Evaluation
3.
Ranking Evaluation
4.
Search interface evaluation
5.
Evaluation Experiments on Information Retrieval

Chapter 11: Next-Generation Information Retrieval
1.
The emergence of a next-generation information retrieval model
2.
Semantic Web and Information Retrieval

References
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