Documentsretrieved in responseto a user's query shouldreflect the intention of the user. Keyword searchesare not sufficient to accomplishthis task. This paper considersLatent SemanticIndexing(LSI) as possiblesolution. LSIis consideredin the contextof a large set of WorldBankdocuments.LSIis shownto be usefulin this regard, but not a completesolution. Additional, domainspecific, informationwouldbe neededas well.