Document retrieval is defined as the matching of some stated user query against a set of free-text records. These records could be any type of mainly unstructured text, such as newspaper articles, real estate records or paragraphs in a manual. User queries can range from multi-sentence full descriptions of an information need to a few words.
Document retrieval is sometimes referred to as, or as a branch of, Text Retrieval. Text retrieval is a branch of information retrieval where the information is stored primarily in the form of text. The advent of full text searching made the job of the indexer redundant during the 1980s. Text databases became decentralized thanks to the personal computer and the CD-ROM. Text retrieval is a critical area of study today, since it is the fundamental basis of all internet search engines.
ref: Document Retrieval & Management Software, wikipedia
Thursday, December 6, 2007
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