Cognitive Models of Information Retrieval: Cognitive science, Human-computer interaction, Information retrieval - Softcover

 
9786201606739: Cognitive Models of Information Retrieval: Cognitive science, Human-computer interaction, Information retrieval

Synopsis

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Cognitive models of information retrieval rest on the mix of areas such as cognitive science, human-computer interaction, information retrieval, and library science. They describe the relationship between a person's cognitive model of the information sought and the organization of this information in an information system. These models attempt to understand how a person is searching for information so that the database and the search of this database can be designed in such a way as to best serve the user. Information retrieval may incorporate multiple tasks and cognitive problems, particularly because different people may have different methods for attempting to find this information and expect the information to be in different forms. Cognitive models of information retrieval may be attempts at something as apparently prosaic as improving search results or may be something more complex, such as attempting to create a database which can be queried with natural language search.

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