Recuperación de Información: Un Área de Investigación En Crecimiento

As a result of the expansion and consolidation of the Internet as the main medium for the transmission of electronic data, a huge amount of information of all kinds has become readily available to humanity. For the purpose of exploiting this information potential it is necessary to have ways of access that would make the information retrieval task both effective and efficient in terms of user resources. This article describes the object of study of "Information Retrieval", its state of the art and main lines of research