Modern of Information Retrieval

Information retrieval is a broad area of Computer Science focused primarily on providing the users with easy access to information of their interest, as follows. Information retrieval deals with the representation, storage, organization of, and access to information items such as documents, Web pages, online catalogs, structured and semi-structured records, multimedia objects. The representation and organization of the information items should be such as to provide the users with easy access to information of their interest. In terms of scope, the area has grown well beyond its early goals of indexing text and searching for useful documents in a collection. Nowadays, research in IR includes modeling, Web search, text classification, systems architecture, user interfaces, data visualization, filtering, languages.