A Self-organized Information Retrieval System, called SIR, is being developed to contribute to a Self-organized Information Base Research Project. SIR is especially designed to be a user-friendly information retrieval system that can be used at an early stage without a database that has been specifically designed for particular information retrieval (IR) tasks. For this purpose, SIR must become intelligent by means of self-organization during use. In order to achieve these goals, SIR is designed using a connectionist information retrieval system. In this article, we describe the design philosophy and the configuration of SIR, and some experimental performance measurements.
