Content management in large-scale information retrieval systems

Herein we introduce a system for managing the content of information systems in order to improve retrieval effectiveness over a large, constantly growing collection of structured and unstructured data. Specifically, we target the problems relating to the submission of new content from various sites, the seamless integration of said content into the main document corpus, and effective methods of searching the available information. In a unique interdisciplinary effort with the Institute of Design at HT we have implemented a prototype for a document management system, which acts as a unifying abstraction layer that the various components of our architecture use to coordinate their efforts.