"Document Filtering"

Supervised by S.Renals

Abstract

This report describes a system for comparing different algorithms for textual document retrieval. The system was developed throughout the year, and this report contains discussions on the work achieved. Background to the project and the field of information retrieval is included, along with discussions of the experiments carried out and the results and conclusions. The evaluation section describes how the project progressed along with the difficulties that were encountered along the way.

Background information that was essential for the project, but not related to the field of information retrieval is described as well as a brief overview of the information retrieval process.