Marti Hearst‘s new book, Search User Interfaces, is out, as Daniel Tunkelang reported earlier. The book covers a range of topics related to interaction around information seeking, including topics such as design, evaluation, models of information seeking, query reformulation, etc. It also discusses emerging trends: Mobile Search Interfaces, Multimedia (although this field has arguably been around long enough to no longer be emerging), Social Search, and natural-language queries. The Social Search section discusses collaborative filtering, recommendation systems, and collaborative search, describing several systems along the full range of depth of mediation.
Marti’s book joins a parade of other recent publications related to information retrieval, including:
- The Geometry of Information Retrieval by C. J. van Rijsbergen (September 2004)
- The Turn: Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context (The Information Retrieval Series) Peter Ingwersen and Kalervo Järvelin (September 2005)
- Information Extraction: Algorithms and Prospects in a Retrieval Context (The Information Retrieval Series) by Marie-Francine Moens (October 2006)
- Text Information Retrieval Systems, Third Edition (Library and Information Science) by Charles T. Meadow, Bert R. Boyce, Donald H. Kraft, and Carol L Barry (March 2007)
- Introduction to Information Retrieval by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Hinrich Schütze (July 2007)
- Information Retrieval for Music and Motion by Meinard Müller (November 2007)
- Visualization for Information Retrieval (The Information Retrieval Series) by Jin Zhang (December 2007)
- Personalized Information Retrieval and Access: Concepts, Methods and Practices (Premier Reference Source) by Rafael Andres Gonzalez Rivera, Nong Chen, and Ajantha Dahanayake (April 2008)
- Latent Semantic Indexing and Information Retrieval by Johanna Geiß (April 2008)
- The Modern Algebra of Information Retrieval (The Information Retrieval Series) by Sándor Dominich (April 2008)
- Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective (Health Informatics) by William Hersh (November 2008)
- Statistical Language Models for Information Retrieval (Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies) by ChengXiang Zhai (December 2008)
- Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice by Bruce Croft, Donald Metzler, and Trevor Strohman (February 2009)
- Law and the Semantic Web: Legal Ontologies, Methodologies, Legal Information Retrieval, and Applications (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) by Richard Benjamins, Pompeu Casanovas, Joost Breuker, and Aldo Gangemi (February 2009)
- Exploratory Search: Beyond the Query-Response Paradigm (Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval & Services) by Ryen White and Resa A. Roth (March 2009)
- (and of course)
Faceted Search (Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services) by Daniel Tunkelang (June 2009)
The list is quite ad hoc, and I am sure I missed more than one relevant title. But the point is that this is a field that is generating interest and (presumably) selling books. Search User Interfaces brings a welcome complementary perspective, focusing on interaction around information seeking rather than predominantly on the algorithms that facilitate the actual indexing and retrieval, which are well covered in the list above. I am also thrilled that the publishers saw fit to make it available online, as it will be an invaluable reference for prior work in this area.
Update: Daniel Tunkelang’s book is available now from the publisher.
Update: Fixed a bunch of HTML nonsense in the above list.
Thanks for including me on a great list! But I do want to correct the date–the book is available now, at least from the publisher:
https://secure.aidcvt.com/mcp/ProdDetails.asp?ID=9781598299991
In addition to a few FXPAL references in the Marti’s bibliography, we also managed a couple of image reprints in Chapter 12.
The MediaMagic interface is pictured in Figure 12.8 and an audio browsing interface by Lynn Wilcox and Don Kimber is pictured in Figure 12.11.
I want to thank you folks for giving permission to use those images … and for doing the cutting-edge research that I describe in that emerging trends chapter.
This is a great list of related book. I have to admit that I didn’t know about all of them when I wrote the preface to my book. It just shows I was buried in the journal and conference literature more than looking at books. Ironic given I was writing a book.
Marti, thanks for making it available online! Sets a nice precedent!
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