Textual Information Retrieval

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the retrieval of textual material from computer databases. To some extent, almost all interactions with computers involve a kind of information retrieval—whether it is reading the altitude, speed or pressure from a cockpit display, obtaining a list of files, printing a paper copy of a figure, or browsing a network of news groups. Improvements in computer hardware and software are making more information more quickly available in electronic form. In addition, there are millions of private databases created and used by individuals and corporations. Many of the problems people encounter in retrieving information from computers are not new. Computer technology can increase some retrieval problems because it is an unfamiliar medium and, unlike paper presentation technology, has not had the benefit of centuries of trial and error progress. Computers can also provide new and previously unavailable solutions to a number of information retrieval problems.

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