Information retrieval applications

General applications

• Digital libraries
• Information filtering
• * Recommender systems
• Media search
• * Blog search
• * Image retrieval
• * 3D retrieval
• * Music retrieval
• * News search
• * Speech retrieval
• * Video retrieval
• Search engines
• * Site search
• * Desktop search
• * Enterprise search
• * Federated search
• * Mobile search
• * Social search
• * Web search

  Domain-specific applications

• Expert search finding
• Genomic information retrieval
• Geographic information retrieval
• Information retrieval for chemical structures
• Information retrieval in software engineering
• Legal information retrieval
• Vertical search

  Other retrieval methods

• Adversarial information retrieval
• Automatic summarization
• *Multi-document summarization
• Compound term processing
• Cross-lingual retrieval
• Document classification
• Spam filtering
• Question answering