Why Search Matters: Information Retrieval in the Pharmaceutical Industry

November 1, 2004

Eric June is chief software architect at AssurX, Inc.

Pharmaceutical Technology, Pharmaceutical Technology-11-01-2004, Volume 2004 Supplement, Issue 8

Information retrieval (IR) deals the representation, storage, organization of unstructured applying natural-language processing,semantic relationships, linguistic analyses,behavioral histories, and “fuzzy” statistical techniques to help human quickly find and retrieve the information they seek.