Natural language techniques for intelligent information retrieval

  • Authors:
  • P. S. Jacob;L. F. Rau

  • Affiliations:
  • Artificial Intelligence Program, GE Research and Development Center, Schenectady, NY, USA;Artificial Intelligence Program, GE Research and Development Center, Schenectady, NY, USA

  • Venue:
  • SIGIR '88 Proceedings of the 11th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

Neither natural language processing nor information retrieval is any longer a young field, but the two areas have yet to achieve a graceful interaction. Mainly, the reason for this incompatibility is that information retrieval technology depends upon relatively simple but robust methods, while natural language processing involves complex knowledge-based systems that have never approached robustness. We provide an analysis of areas in which natural language and information retrieval come together, and describe a system that joins the two fields by combining technology, choice of application area, and knowledge acquisition techniques.