Overview
In the field of retrieval systems, established approaches include:
- Data Retrieval Systems (DRS), such as database management systems, are well suitable for the storage and retrieval of structured data.
- Information Retrieval Systems (IRS), such as web search engines, are very effective in finding the relevant documents or web pages.
Both approaches require a user to read and analyze often long lists of data sets or documents in order to extract meaning.
The goal of knowledge retrieval systems is to reduce the burden of those processes by improved search and representation. This improvement is needed to leverage the increasing data volumes available on the Internet.
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