Soft Computing in Information Retrieval
Pasi, Gabriella / Crestani, Fabio![Soft Computing in Information Retrieval](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/112/11205843/CHSBZCOP0311205843.jpg)
Information retrieval (IR) aims at defining systems able to provide a fast and effective content-based access to a large amount of stored information. The aim of an IR system is to estimate the relevance of documents to users' information needs, expressed by means of a query. This is a very difficult and complex task, since it is pervaded with imprecision and uncertainty. Most of the existing IR systems offer a very simple model of IR, which p...