Textual CBR and Information Retrieval -- A Comparison

In recent years, quite a number of projects started to apply case-based reasoning technology to textual documents instead of highly structured cases. For this the term Textual CBR has been coined. In this paper, we give an overview over the main ideas of Textual CBR and compare it with Information Retrieval techniques. We also present some preliminary results obtained from three projects performed which further demonstrate major advantages of Tex-tual CBR.