Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Models of human memory and computer information retrieval have many similarities in the methods they use for representing and accessing information. This article examines the methods and representations used in both human memory modeling and computer information retrieval and discusses similarities and differences From these similarities and differences, the features that lead to successful retrieval in both human memory and computer information retrieval domains can be determined. An analysis of these features can then help in the future design of both human and computer retrieval models.