The role of artificial intelligence in information retrieval

✍ Scribed by Jones, Karen Sparck

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1017 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-8231
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(199109)42:8<558::aid-asi4>3.0.co;2-4

✦ Synopsis

This opinion article presents a view of the scope for artificial intelligence in information retrieval. It considers four potential roles for Al in IR, evaluating Al from a realistic point of view and within a wide information management context. The conclusion

is that Al has limited potential, not just because Al is itself insufficiently developed, but because many information management tasks are properly shallow information processing ones. There is nevertheless an important place for specific ap plications of Al or Al-derived technology when particular constraints can be placed on the information management tasks involved.