IR, NLP, and Visualization

Abstract

In the last ten years natural language processing (NLP) hits become an essential part of many information retrieval systems, mainly in the guise of question answering, summarization; machine translation and preprocessing such as decompounding. However; most of these methods are shallow. More complex natural language processing is not yet sufficiently reliable to be used in IR. I will discuss how new visualization technology and rich interactive environments offer new opportunities for complex NLP in IR.