TITLE:
A Full Text Retrieval System in a Digital Library Environment
AUTHORS:
Kehinde Daniel Aruleba, Dipo Theophilus Akomolafe, Babajide Afeni
KEYWORDS:
Full Text, Information Retrieval, Library, Digital Library, Queries, Indexing, Catalogue
JOURNAL NAME:
Intelligent Information Management,
Vol.8 No.1,
January
13,
2016
ABSTRACT: The volume of information being created,
generated and stored is huge. Without adequate knowledge of Information
Retrieval (IR) methods, the retrieval process for information would be
cumbersome and frustrating. Studies have further revealed that IR methods are
essential in information centres (for example, Digital Library environment)
for storage and retrieval of information. Therefore, with more than one
billion people accessing the Internet, and millions of queries being issued on
a daily basis, modern Web search engines are facing a problem of daunting
scale. The main problem associated with the existing search engines is how to
avoid irrelevant information retrieval and to retrieve the relevant ones. In
this study, the existing system of library retrieval was studied. Problems
associated with them were analyzed in order to address this problem. The
concept of existing information retrieval models was studied, and the knowledge
gained was used to design a digital library information retrieval system. It
was successfully implemented using a real life data. The need for a continuous
evaluation of the IR methods for effective and efficient full text retrieval
system was recommended.