Natural language processing in information retrieval

✍ Scribed by Doszkocs, Tamas E.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 839 KB
• Volume: 37
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-8231
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(198607)37:4<191::aid-asi3>3.0.co;2-y

✦ Synopsis

Words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew upon thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think" -Lord Byron The role and contributions of naturaLlanguage process. ing in information-retrieval and artificial-intelligence rem search is examined in the context of large operational information-retrieval systems and services. State-ofthe-art information-retrieval systems are found to corn. bine the functional capabilities of the conventional in. verted file-Boolean logic-term adjacency approach, commonly employed by commercial search services, with statistical-combinatoric techniques pioneered in experimental informationretrieval research and formal naturaLlanguage processing methods and tools bar. rowed from artificial intelligence.