Natural Language in Information Retrieval

It seems the time is ripe for the two to meet: NLP has grown out of prototypes and IR is having hard time trying to improve precision. Two examples of possible approaches are considered below. Lexware is a lexicon-based system for text analysis of Swedish applied in an information retrieval task. NLIR is an information retrieval system using intensive natural language processing to provide index terms on a higher level of abstraction than stems.