Finding Out About
A Cognitive Perspective on Search Engine Technology and the WWW
Richard K. Belew

£24.99

Explains how to build useful tools for searching collections of text and other media.

‘One of the wonderful things about this textbook is that it considers information retrieval in the context of the Web … It is only in the last ten years that a new technology- the World Wide Web - has started to have an impact on people’s information-seeking activities. It is not easy to introduce current technology meaningfully and successfully into scientific discussions about IR, but Rik Belew has done just that. Students will come to this book with quite a sophisticated knowledge of the Web and will not be disappointed. From the point of view of a teacher introducing the Web as a vehicle for experimentation, it is ideal.’ Keith van Rijsbergen from the foreword.

Published October 2008 | Paperback | ISBN-13:9780521734462 | In stock

Introduction to Information Retrieval
Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, Hinrich Schütze

£32.99

Class-tested and up-to-date textbook for introductory courses on information retrieval.

'This is the first book that gives you a complete picture of the complications that arise in building a modern web-scale search engine. You'll learn about ranking SVMs, XML, DNS, and LSI. You'll discover the seedy underworld of spam, cloaking, and doorway pages. You'll see how MapReduce and other approaches to parallelism allow us to go beyond megabytes and to efficiently manage petabytes.' Peter Norvig, Director of Research, Google Inc.

Published September 2008 | Hardback | ISBN-13:9780521865715 | Temporarily unavailable - available from October 2008

Algorithms on Strings
Maxime Crochemore, Christophe Hancart, Thierry Lecroq

£40.00

Detailed algorithms for string processes and pattern matching have examples from natural language processing, molecular sequencing, and databases.

'perfect for lectures on 'stringology', for graduate students as a reference on the topic and for appliers in linguistic or molecular biology' Acta Scientiarum Mathematicarum

Published June 2007 | Hardback | ISBN-13:9780521848992 | In stock

The Text Mining Handbook
Advanced Approaches in Analyzing Unstructured Data
Ronen Feldman, James Sanger

£40.00

Covers text mining and link detection algorithms, pre-processing techniques, knowledge representation, visualization and applications.

' … buy the book. This book is definitely worth having in your book shelf as a handy reference.' IAPR Newsletter

Published February 2007 | Hardback | ISBN-13:9780521836579 | In stock

Kernel Methods for Pattern Analysis
John Shawe-Taylor, Nello Cristianini

£48.00

Unique account of developing topic in data mining and machine learning.

'Kernel methods form an important aspect of modern pattern analysis, and this book gives a lively and timely account of such methods. … if you want to get a good idea of the current research in this field, this book cannot be ignored.' SIAM Review

Published July 2004 | Hardback | ISBN-13:9780521813976 (ISBN-10:0521813972) | In stock

Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms
David J. C. MacKay

£35.00

Fun and exciting textbook on the mathematics underpinning the most dynamic areas of modern science and engineering.

'This is an extraordinary and important book, generous with insight and rich with detail in statistics, information theory, and probabilistic modeling across a wide swathe of standard, creatively original, and delightfully quirky topics. David MacKay is an uncompromisingly lucid thinker, from whom students, faculty and practitioners all can learn.' Peter Dayan and Zoubin Ghahramani, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College, London

Published September 2003 | Hardback | ISBN-13:9780521642989 (ISBN-10:0521642981) | In stock

An Introduction to Support Vector Machines and Other Kernel-based Learning Methods
Nello Cristianini, John Shawe-Taylor

£40.00

A comprehensive introduction to this recent method for machine learning and data mining.

‘… the most accessible introduction to the area I have yet seen’. D. J. Hand, Publication of the International Statistical Institute

Published March 2000 | Hardback | ISBN-13:9780521780193 (ISBN-10:0521780195) | In stock