Information retrieval applications

Information retrieval applications

Areas where information retrieval techniques are employed include (the entries are in alphabetical order within each category):

General applications of information retrieval

* Digital libraries
* Information filtering
** Recommender systems
* Media search
** Blog search
** Image retrieval
** Music retrieval
** News search
** Speech retrieval
** Video retrieval
* Search engines
** Desktop search
** Enterprise search
** Federated search
** Mobile search
** Social search
** Web search

Domain specific applications of information retrieval

* Expert search finding
* Genomic information retrieval
* Geographic information retrieval
* Information retrieval for chemical structures
* Information retrieval in software engineering
* Legal information retrieval
* Vertical search

Other retrieval methods

Methods/Techniques in which information retrieval techniques are employed include:
* Adversarial information retrieval
* Automatic summarization
**Multi-document summarization
* Compound term processing
* Cross-lingual retrieval
* Document classification
**Spam filtering
* Open source information retrieval
* Question answering
* Structured document retrieval
* Topic detection and tracking

See also

* Information retrieval


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