Book review: Information Retrieval Data Structures & Algorithms by William B. Frakes (Software Engineering Guild), Ricardo Baeza-Yates (University of Chile). Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1992, 504 pp., $50.00 (Retail Price), ISBN 0-13-463837-9.

This is an extremely welcome addition to the Information Retrieval (IR) literature. Because of its technical approach it is much different from most of the available books on IR. The book consists of five sections containing eighteen chapters. The chapters are written by different authors.