Aimed to the loss of the intent information in the match model of present information retrieval systems (IRS),a two-dimensional match model was proposed exploiting genre to describe both search in- tent and document purpose. The consistent descriptions ensure the independent match of intent dimension. The series of experiments were conducted and the results showed that separating the intent information from the content could raise the relevance of the top-lO items in the returned list, which means that the two-dimensional match model provided more...