CONCEPToHW A Concept-learning Information Retrieval System - Basic Ideas SoKoHoWOng a n d W o j c i e c h Z i a r k o Computer Science Department University of Regina Regina~ Saskatchewan $ 4 S @A2 CANADA EXTENDED ABSTRACT When a u s e r a p p r o a c h e s an information retrieval system he { o r she) usually knows what kind of information he (she) is looking for In other words, the user has a certain ~concept ~ in mind a b o u t w h i c h he { s h e ) w o u l d l i k e to obtain more information,~ The presence of the concept reflects itself in the user's ability to distinguish relevant documents from nonrelevant ones after reviewing their contents However~ the fundamental problem in IR is to distinguish automatically the relevant documents from nonrelevant without reviewing their contents, for example~ based on a kind of s i m i l a r i t y f u n c t i o n as it is c o m m o n in e x i
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