Bücher der Reihe Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval

This monograph explores the main issues involved in enterprise search both from a research as well as a practical point of view. It plots the landscape of enterprise search and its links to related areas, identifying key features before surveying the field in more detail.

Applications of Topic Models describes the recent academic and industrial applications of topic models with the goal of launching a young researcher capable of building their own applications of topic models.

Offers insightful knowledge of real-world systems, to bridge the gaps between industry and academia, and to provide an overview of the fundamental infrastructure, algorithms, and technical and research challenges of the new frontier of computational advertising.

This monograph presents an overview of information retrieval, natural language processing and machine learning research that makes use of forum data, including both discussion forums and community question-answering (cQA) archives.

This monograph brings together research on all elements of Geographic Information Retrieval. It provides an overview of the research field, and in so doing identifies key remaining research challenges in GIR.