Artificial Intelligence and Information Retrieval

International audienceInformation Retrieval (IR) is a process involving activities related to human cognition and to knowledge management; as such, the definition of Information Retrieval Systems can benefit of the application of artificial intelligence techniques to account for the intrinsic uncertainty and imprecision that characterize the subjectivity of this task. This chapter presents a synthetic analysis of the IR task from an AI perspective and explores how AI techniques are employed within IR