This chapter deals with resarch works evolutions, through last fifty years, in the field of natural language processing towards information retrieval. Three stages are pointed : the former, until 1980, where linguistic and quantitative methods are opposite, the second, until 1995, where all the disciplines are sollicited and lead to hybridation of methods ; this stage of pre-industrialisation ended with campaign of evaluation of such methods ; the latter is characterized by industrialization.
Évolution des traitements informatiques et linguistiques pour la recherche d'information. Retour critique sur la place des techniques et des technologies en SIC