Special Issue on Recent Trends in Information Retrieval

摘要

Information retrieval is a process to identify the relevant information of an unstructured nature within the context of information need from a set of large information pool of resources. In answer to a variety of issues concern for providing information access, information retrieval has evolved providing systematic procedure for searching a variety of contents. Information search and retrieval paves a significant way to locate relevant resources. The ability to support an end user in obtaining relevant information is the responsibility of librarians and information scientists. The Searches results may find their basis on metadata or on full-text or other content-based indexing. Optimization of information retrieval strategies has contributed a lot in generation of web search engine to latest quality standards where the majority of internet users are gratified majority of the time, and web search has become an ordinary and often desired source of information finding.