Managing Gigabytes

Ian H. Witten is a professor of computer science at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. He directs the New Zealand Digital Library research project. His research interests include information retrieval, machine learning, text compression, and programming by demonstration. He received an MA in Mathematics from Cambridge University, England; an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Calgary, Canada; and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Essex University, England. He is a fellow of the ACM and of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He has published widely on digital libraries, machine learning, text compression, hypertext, speech synthesis and signal processing, and computer typography.

"This book is the Bible for anyone who needs to manage large data collections. It's required reading for our search gurus at Infoseek. The authors have done an outstanding job of incorporating and describing the most significant new research in information retrieval over the past five years into this second edition."—Steve Kirsch, Cofounder, Infoseek Corporation"The new edition of Witten, Moffat, and Bell not only has newer and better text search algorithms but much material on image analysis and joint image/text processing. If you care about search engines, you need this book: it is the only one with full details of how they work. The book is both detailed and enjoyable; the authors have combined elegant writing with top-grade programming."—Michael Lesk, National Science Foundation"The coverage of compression, file organizations, and indexing techniques for full text and document management systems is unsurpassed. Students, researchers, and practitioners will all benefit from reading this book."—Bruce Croft, Director, Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval at the University of Massachusetts

• PREFACE 1. OVERVIEW 2. TEXT COMPRESSION3. INDEXING 4. QUERYING 5. INDEX CONSTRUCTION 6. IMAGE COMPRESSION 7. TEXTUAL IMAGES8. MIXED TEXT AND IMAGES 9. IMPLEMENTATION 10. THE INFORMATION EXPLOSION A. GUIDE TO THE MG SYSTEM B. GUIDE TO THE NZDL REFERENCES INDEX