Towards Enhancing Information Retrieval Systems: A Brief Survey of Strategies and Challenges
Francis A. Ruambo, Mrindoko R. Nicholaus · 2019
The exponentially increasing of resources generated and stored in various forms and made available within the internet has posed numerous challenges inside information retrieval (IR) operations and consequently accelerated a myriad of studies in the realm of IR technologies. In the IR system, the large part of the researches is centred on how to satisfy an information requirement from a query to voluminous document sets. In this regard, the importance is on improving the relevance quality of the results (i.e. retrieved documents). The effectiveness of the IR system depends on the efficacy of the respective adopted IR model and strategy. Understanding of the IR models, strategies and their challenges is important in choosing an appropriate and viable strategy toward the development of effective IR systems for a specific/predefined role. This paper surveys the basic IR models, challenges and adopted strategies to enhance the IR systems are also highlighted.