Editing Information retrieval (section)

==Applications==
Areas where information retrieval techniques are employed include (the entries are in alphabetical order within each category):

===General applications===
* [[Digital libraries]]
*  [[Information filtering]]
** [[Recommender systems]]
*  Media search
** Blog search
** [[Image retrieval]]
** [[3D retrieval]]
** [[Music information retrieval|Music retrieval]]
** News search
** Speech retrieval
** [[Video retrieval]]
* [[Search engines]]
** [[Site search]]
** [[Desktop search]]
** [[Enterprise search]]
** [[Federated search]]
** [[Mobile search]]
** [[Social search]]
** [[Web search engine|Web search]]

===Domain-specific applications===
* Expert search finding
* Genomic information retrieval
* [[Geographic information retrieval]]
*  Information retrieval for chemical structures
* Information retrieval in [[software engineering]]
* [[Legal information retrieval]]
* [[Vertical search]]

===Other retrieval methods===
Methods/Techniques in which information retrieval techniques are employed include:
* [[Adversarial information retrieval]]
* [[Automatic summarization]]
**[[Multi-document summarization]]
* [[Compound term processing]]
* [[Cross-language information retrieval|Cross-lingual retrieval]]
* [[Document classification]]
* [[Spam filtering]]
* [[Question answering]]