Information Filtering

An information filtering system sorts through large volumes of dynamically generated information to present to the user those nuggets of information which are likely to satisfy his or her immediate needs. Information filtering overlaps the older field of information retrieval, which also deals with the selection of information. Many of the features of information retrieval system design (e.g. representation, similarity measures or boolean selection, document space visualization) are present in information filtering systems as well. Information filtering is roughly information retrieval from a rapidly changing information space.


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Information Filtering,An information filtering system sorts through large volumes of dynamically generated information to present to the user those nuggets of information which are likely to satisfy his or her immediate needs. Information filtering overlaps the older field of information retrieval, which also deals with the selection of information. Many of the features of information retrieval system design (e.g. representation, similarity measures or boolean selection, document space visualization) are present in information filtering systems as well. Information filtering is roughly information retrieval from a rapidly changing information space.,