Authors: Urmila Pilania, Manoj Kumar, Sanjay Singh

Advanced Information Retrieval System: Theoretical and Experimental Perspective

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ISBN: 979-8-89881-367-3 (Print)
ISBN: 979-8-89881-366-6 (Online)
Year of Publication: 2026
DOI: 10.2174/97988988136661260101

Introduction

Advanced Information Retrieval System: Theoretical and Experimental Perspective blends foundational theory with practicality to provide an integrative exploration of modern information retrieval (IR) systems. This volume examines a wide range of IR methodologies, from classical indexing and ranking techniques to cutting-edge AI-driven approaches, demonstrating how these systems can be applied across diverse domains, including web search, recommendation systems, sentiment analysis, and multimedia retrieval.

The book takes a structured approach towards guiding readers from traditional IR models to advanced, hybrid frameworks. The early chapters focus on classical and modern retrieval techniques with comparative analyses of different methods. Subsequent chapters focus on applied scenarios such as tourism recommender systems, sentiment mining from YouTube comments, book and medicine recommendation engines, and image-audio-based retrieval systems. Advanced topics include semantic role classification using BERT, hybrid filtering methods, personalised web crawlers, and experimental studies on smoothing techniques. Real-world case studies and experimental evaluations illustrate how theoretical models translate into effective, domain-specific IR applications.


Key Features

  • - Comprehensive coverage of traditional, modern, and hybrid IR techniques.
  • - Practical frameworks for recommendation systems, sentiment analysis, and web crawling.
  • - Integration of AI and machine learning methods, including BERT and TF-IDF models.
  • - Experimental evaluations and comparative analyses across multiple domains.
  • - Real-world applications spanning tourism, healthcare, fashion, and multimedia retrieval.

Target Readership:

Graduate students, researchers, academics and professionals in computer science, information retrieval, data science, AI, and machine learning.

Preface

Nowadays, servers contain a lot of information, but extracting or retrieving the meaningful information is a challenging and complex task. Information retrieval is required in multidisciplinary fields, including medical, computer science, media, linguistics, blogs, statistics, encyclopedias, and many more. Technological advancements in computer vision, artificial intelligence, and data mining have significantly influenced IR systems. These days, users’ expectations are very high, which has influenced the traditional IR systems into fast, precise, and relevant search results. Various information sources, such as multimedia, internet sources, books, newspapers, social media, and big data, have presented new issues and prospects in IR.

The theoretical aspect will provide a comprehensive understanding of the primary theories and methods that support IR systems, but the experimental methods will support theoretical models in real-life applications. The latest developments will be reviewed and discussed in this book, such as NLP, data mining, AI techniques, web search, and contextual search. The IR system will be evaluated on parameters, such as recall, precision, accuracy, reliability, used requirement, security, and many more. The issues with the IR system will be identified along with future directions for researchers and academicians. This book will serve as a comprehensive resource for students, researchers, and academicians.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The journey of writing “Advanced Information Retrieval System: Theoretical and Experimental Perspective” has been both intellectually inspiring and immensely rewarding. This book would not have been possible without the support, guidance, and encouragement of many individuals and institutions.

First and foremost, I express my heartfelt gratitude to my mentors, colleagues, and peers, whose valuable insights and constructive feedback have significantly contributed to the depth and quality of this work. Their expertise has been instrumental in refining the theoretical concepts and experimental approaches presented in this book.

I am also deeply thankful to my institution and the research community for providing a conducive academic environment and access to essential resources that facilitated my exploration of advanced information retrieval systems.

Urmila Pilania
Department of Computer Science & Technology, Manav Rachna University, Faridabad, India

Manoj Kumar
Department of Computer Science & Technology, Manav Rachna University, Faridabad, India

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Sanjay Singh
Department of Computer Science & Technology, Manav Rachna University, Faridabad, India