| 1986 | A Common Architecture for Different Text Processing Techniques in an Information Retrieval Environment. Gregor Thurmair |
| 1986 | A Design of a Distributed Full Text Retrieval System. Patrick Martin, Ian A. MacLeod, Brent Nordin |
| 1986 | A Machine Learning Approach to Information Retrieval. S. K. Michael Wong, Wojciech Ziarko |
| 1986 | A New Theoretical Framework for Information Retrieval. C. J. van Rijsbergen |
| 1986 | An Approach to Multimedia Information Management. S. Gallelli, C. Iacobelli, P. Marchisio |
| 1986 | An Automatic and Tunable Document Indexing System. Esen A. Ozkarahan, Fazli Can |
| 1986 | An Experimental Study of Factors Important in Document Ranking. Donna Harman |
| 1986 | An Information Retrieval System Based on Artificial Intelligence Techniques. Dario De Jaco, Gianluca Garbolino |
| 1986 | An Interpretation of Index Term Weighting Schemes Based on Document Components. K. L. Kwok |
| 1986 | CALIN - A User Interface Based on a Simple Natural Language. Patrick Bosc, Michèle Courant, Sophie Robin |
| 1986 | COREL - A Conceptual Retrieval System. M. Kathryn Di Benigno, George R. Cross, Cary deBessonet |
| 1986 | Document Presentation and Query Formulation in Muse. Simon J. Gibbs, Dennis Tsichritzis |
| 1986 | Hierarchic Document Clustering Using Ward's Method. Abdelmoula El-Hamdouchi, Peter Willett |
| 1986 | IOTA: A Full Text Information Retrieval System. Yves Chiaramella, Bruno Defude, Marie-France Bruandet, Dalila Kerkouba |
| 1986 | IR, NLP, AI and UFOS: Or IR-Relevance, Natural Language Problems, Artful Intelligence and User-Friendly Online Systems. Tamas E. Doszkocs |
| 1986 | Improved Hierarchical Bit-Vector Compression in Document Retrieval Systems. Yaacov Choueka, Aviezri S. Fraenkel, Shmuel T. Klein, E. Segal |
| 1986 | Improved Subject Access, Browsing and Scanning Mechanisms in Modern Online IR. Peter Ingwersen, Irene Wormell |
| 1986 | Incorporating Syntactic Information into a Document Retrieval Strategy: An Investigation. Alan F. Smeaton |
| 1986 | Methodological Issues for the Design of an Office Information Server - Focal Topics for the Analysis from an Office System Perspective. Till W. Truckenmüller, Michael Rathgeb |
| 1986 | Non-Binary Independence Model. Clement T. Yu, T. C. Lee |
| 1986 | On Extending the Vector Space Model for Boolean Query Processing. S. K. Michael Wong, Wojciech Ziarko, Vijay V. Raghavan, P. C. N. Wong |
| 1986 | Performance of Self-Taught Documents: Exploiting Co-Relevance Structure in a Document Collection. Abraham Bookstein |
| 1986 | Probabilistic Models for Document Retrieval: A Comparison of Performance on Experimental and Synthetic Databases. Robert M. Losee, Abraham Bookstein, Clement T. Yu |
| 1986 | Recent Trends in Automatic Information Retrieval. Gerard Salton |
| 1986 | S-Tree: A Dynamic Balanced Signature Index for Office Retrieval. Uwe Deppisch |
| 1986 | SIGIR'86, Proceedings of the 9th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Pisa, Italy, September 8-10, 1986 Luigi Rossi Bernardi, Fausto Rabitti |
| 1986 | Solving Grammatical Ambiguities within a Surface Syntactical Parser for Automatic Indexing. Catherine Berrut, Patrick Palmer |
| 1986 | Text Compression Using Prediction. Jukka Teuhola, Timo Raita |
| 1986 | The Efficiency of Inverted Index and Cluster Searches. Ellen M. Voorhees |
| 1986 | The Maximum Entropy Principle in Information Retrieval. Paul B. Kantor, Jung Jin Lee |
| 1986 | The Use of Inference Mechanisms to Improve the Retrieval Facilities from Large Relational Databases. Gian Piero Zarri |
| 1986 | The Visual Display of Information in an Information Retrieval Environment. Donald B. Crouch |
| 1986 | Two Models of Retrieval with Probabilistic Indexing. Norbert Fuhr |
| 1986 | User-Oriented Document Clustering: A Framework for Learning in Information Retrieval. Jitender S. Deogun, Vijay V. Raghavan |
| 1986 | User-Specified Domain Knowledge for Document Retrieval. W. Bruce Croft |
| 1986 | Using Structural Representations of Anomalous States of Knowledge for Choosing Document Retrieval Strategies. Nicholas J. Belkin, Barbara H. Kwasnik |