Mini:Document retrieval
Document retrieval is the matching of some stated user query against a set of free-text records such as newspaper articles, real estate records or paragraphs in a manual. User queries can range from multi-sentence full descriptions of an information need to one or more words. Document retrieval is a branch of Text Retrieval, a critical area of study today, since it is the fundamental basis of all internet search engines.
See also: Document classification (create) Information retrieval (create) Search engine (edit) Latent semantic indexing (create)