The paper is a literature report with focus on terminology and linguistics. The goal is establish the contribution of each area in the current informational scenario of knowledge representation and its subsequent retrieval. It stresses the keywords importance as units of information representation and retrieval. It accentuates the need to establish the interrelationship between natural language and terminology of a domian in order to improve the documentary language. It stresses that an information retrieval system in which information is represented according to users' language will allow information retrieval with greater precision and relevance.
Information retrieval systems; Terminology; Natural Language; Documentary Language; Keywords