Information retrieval applications
From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Areas where information retrieval techniques are employed include (the entries are in alphabetical order within each category):
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General applications of information retrieval
- Digital libraries
- Information filtering
- Media search
- Blog search
- Image retrieval
- 3D retrieval
- Music retrieval
- News search
- Speech retrieval
- Video retrieval
- Search engines
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
- Compound term processing
- Cross-lingual retrieval
- Document classification
- Spam filtering
- Question answering
