functional model of IRS
FUNCTIONAL MODEL OF IRS
As every IRS consists of a set of documents a set of queries and mechanisms to determine which of the documents are requirements of queries to begin with documents are first represented by a set of subject terms using classification or indexing language. The queries are also converted in to a representation consisting of elements of indexing language. The mapping of documents to the indexing language may be carried out manually, automatically or by combination the two processes. The mapping is known as indexing process. The indexing language is either pre-specified or taken freely from the text of the documents and queries .a particular method used to represent the individual document and query is less important than the actual choice of the elements of the indexing language made during the indexing and text analysis processes.

