With its advantages in information retrieval, such as simple in indexing and convenient in information re-trieval, natural language is now widely used in idonnafion retrieval and network retrieval. However, due to some charac-teristics of the natural language itself, its retrieval result is usually tmsafisfactory. This paper sumamrizes several main fac-tots that restrict natural language retrieval and introduces a concept space method to improve its retrieval efficiency.
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