Message

Message in Legal Information Retrieval

The following is a basic concept of Message in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Message may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Information Retrieval databases are used to find and retrieve messages. A message is the content of a meaningful communication. In order to be communicated — to be sent and to be received, messages must be encoded into texts, using symbols or representations that can convey meaning to recipients of the message. And the text of a message must be recorded on a medium to create a document. A message is potential information. If a message is actually received by someone who pays some level of attention to it, that person can be said to have been informed by the message, and the message itself can qualify as information.