In the past decade IR model assumes human to engage in
activity that generates the information need. This need is
verbalized and then expressed as a query to search engine. In
the 30th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2007,
one of the keynote talks focused on the future research of the
IR field which will concentrate on two trends, both
representing what researcher in [22] called as “short-circuits”
of the IR model. The first trend is the context driven
Information Supply (IS) where Web IR will include the
supply of relevant information from multiple sources without
explicit query from the user. The IS concept greatly precedes
information retrieval and what is new in the web framework
is the ability to supply relevant information specific to a
given activity and a given user, while the activity is being
performed. Thus the entire verbalization and query
formulation phase are eliminated. The second trend is social
search driven by the fact that the Web has evolved to being a
huge repository of knowledge and a vast social environment.
By this, it is more effective to ask the members of a given
web environment rather than construct elaborate queries.
Although this short-circuits only the query formulation, but
information finding activities that are not expressible at all as
queries can be done against a fixed corpus. These will
somehow direct the research moving beyond the limited and
can addressed all the challenges in cross-lingual IR.