Abstrait

The Information Retrieval, a Future Barrier

G.Ganesh Sriram, T.Pravallika, K.Neelima, Shaik Rahmathulla

This paper describes a brief history of the research and development of information retrieval system starting with electromagnetic searching device, through the construction of indexing table and inverse document matrices through to the early adaption of computers to search for items that are relevant to user query. This includes ranking of queries based on frequency weights. This also includes vector similarity between the query and the retrieved document. The address achieved by information retrieval researches from the 1950’s through to the present day of locating relevant information. The paper closes with speculation on where the future of information retrieval lies