An Approach to Incorporating CBR Concepts in IR Systems

Case-Based Reasoning and Information Retrieval: Exploring Opportunities for Technology Sharing

Volume

Papers from the 1993 AAAI Spring Symposium

Contents

Information retrieval (IR) is concerned with techniques that can provide effective access to large databases of objects that contain primarily text. It is generally assumed that there is a wide variety of users and a large number of potential queries. Although these characteristics are different than those of a typical case-based reasoning (CBR) application, there are opportunities for integration of the two approaches. To demonstrate that this is possible, we first describe IR techniques in more detail. After a brief overview of CBR, we then outline an approach to integration that takes advantage of the strengths of both approaches. We also give a simple example of how an integrated CBR/IR system could be used to address a real information need.