Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Biographies
1. Introduction
2. Modeling
3. Retrieval Evaluation
4. Query Languages (with Gonzalo Navarro)
5. Query Operations
6. Text and Multimedia Languages and Properties (with Nivio Ziviani)
7. Text Operations
8. Indexing and Searching (with Gonzalo Navarro)
9. Parallel and Distributed IR (Eric Brown)
10. User Interfaces and Visualization (Marti Hearst)
11. Multimedia IR: Models and Languages (Elisa Bertino, Barbara Catania and Elena Ferrari)
12. Multimedia IR: Indexing and Searching (Christos Faloutsos)
13. Searching The Web
14. Libraries and Bibliographical Systems (Edie Rasmussen)
15. Digital Libraries (Edward A Fox and Ohm Sornil)
Appendix:  Porter's Algorithm
Glossary
Bibliography
Index