A discussion of many of the key design issues for building search engines. It emphasizes the important roles that applied mathematics can play in improving information retrieval. The authors discuss not only important data structures, algorithms and software, but also user-centred issues such as interfaces, manual indexing, and document preparation. The authors bridge the gap between applied mathematics and information retrieval. They discuss some of the current problems in information retrieval that may not be familiar to applied mathematicians and computer scientists and present some of the driving computational methods (SVD, SDD) for automated conceptual indexing. This book introduces topics in a non-technical way and provides insights into common problems found in information retrieval. The more mathematical details are provided in sidebars or offset from the regular text.
Michael W. Berry holds the title of Full Professor and Associate Department Head in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Prof. Berry is the co-author of "Templates for the Solution of Linear Systems:
Building Blocks for Iterative Methods" (SIAM, 1994) and "Understanding Search Engines: Mathematical Modeling and Text Retrieval, Second Edition" (Bestseller, SIAM, 2005) and editor of "Computational Information Retrieval" (SIAM, 2001), "Survey of Text Mining: Clustering, Classification, and Retrieval" (Springer-Verlag, 2003, 2007), "Lecture Notes in Data Mining" (Bestseller, World Scientific, 2006), and "Text Mining: Applications and Theory" (Wiley, 2010). He has published well over 100 peer-refereed journal and conference publications.
He has organized numerous workshops on Text Mining and was Conference Co-Chair of the 2003 SIAM Third International Conference on Data Mining (May 1-3) in San Francisco, CA. He was also Program Co-Chair of the 2004 Co-Chair of the 2003 SIAM Fourth International Conference on Data Mining (April 22-24) in Orlando, FL. He is a member of SIAM, ACM, MAA, and the IEEE Computer Society and is on the editorial board of "Computing in Science and Engineering" and "Statistical Analysis and Data Mining".
His research interests include information retrieval, data and text mining,
computational science, bioinformatics, and parallel computing. Prof. Berry's
research has been supported by grants and contracts from organizations such
as the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
