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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS W. B. Frakes Software Engineering Guild, Sterling, VA 22170 Abstract This chapter introduces and defines basic IR concepts, and presents a domain model of IR systems that describes their similarities and differences. The domain model is used to introduce and relate the chapters that follow. The relationship of IR systems to other information systems is dicussed, as is the evaluation of IR systems. 1.1 INTRODUCTION Automated information retrieval (IR) systems were originally developed to help manage the huge scientific litera