An incremental approach to text representation, categorization, and retrieval

Efficient and accurate information retrieval is a goal of just about everyone. Whether you are looking for information on the Internet, a book or article in the library, satellite imagery of missile silos, or a recipe for dinner, finding exactly what you want or need, even if you know exactly what you are looking for, can be an imposing and most difficult task. Many current techniques require an intimate understanding of the actual processes involved. The method presented in this paper provides for an automatic representation of text data by vectors, which can then be manipulated to categorize and organize the data. Information can be retrieved without knowledge of the underlying process. The user can ask for information using normal discourse. This technology can also be applied to data mining and visualization.