This document presents a new model called EQUIRS (Explicitly Query Understanding Information Retrieval System) based on Hidden Markov Models (HMM) to improve natural language processing for text query information retrieval. The proposed EQUIRS system is compared to previous fuzzy clustering methods. Experimental results on a dataset of 900 files across 5 categories show that EQUIRS has higher accuracy than fuzzy clustering, as measured by precision, recall, F-measure, though it has longer training and searching times. The document concludes that EQUIRS is an effective approach for information retrieval based on HMM.