Beyond Information Retrieval: A Survey

The days of the traditional abstracting and indexing services are waning, as abstracts and bibliographic data become a commodity. However, there are tremendous opportunities for those organizations willing to look beyond the status quo to the new possibilities enabled by the latest wave of advanced technologies. Features like automatic extraction of key concepts or names, collaborative filtering to help with trends analysis, visualization techniques, and more, can take information past the retrieval stage and into the management arena.