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What is Information Retrieval
1.
Information Retrieval
is understood as a fully automatic process that responds to a user query by examining a collection of documents and returning a sorted document list that should be relevant to the user requirements as expressed in the query.
Learn more in: Searching Health Information in Question-Answering Systems
2.
The activity of obtaining
information
resources relevant to an
information
need from a collection of
information
resources. Searches can be based on metadata or on full-text indexing.
Learn more in: Linkage Discovery with Glossaries
3.
Information retrieval
is the science of searching for
information
in documents, searching for documents themselves, searching for meta-data which describe documents or searching within databases, whether relational stand-alone databases or hyper textually-networked databases such as World Wide Web.
Learn more in: Automatic Reference Tracking
4.
Implementation of tools to assist the user in research to find important
information
concerning business issues.
Learn more in: Information Architecture: Case Study
5.
Information retrieval
techniques are used to extract the relevant
information
from the natural language documents and represent it in a structured form suitable for computer processing.
Learn more in: Semantic Approach to Knowledge Representation and Processing
6.
Information retrieval
is the science of searching for
information
in documents for text, sound, images or data.
Learn more in: Interactive Personalized Catalogue for M-Commerce
7.
The process of finding
information
in a set of documents by use of a computer.
Learn more in: Towards Multimedia Digital Libraries
8.
The scientific discipline that deals with the representation, organization, storage, and maintenance of
information
objects and in particular textual objects. The representation and organization of the
information
items should provide the user with easy access to the relevant
information
and satisfy the user’s various
information
needs.
Learn more in: Indexing Textual Information
9.
A branch of science that deals with the representation, storage, organization of, and access to
information
with the prime aim of
retrieval information
for a given set of queries.
Learn more in: Web Search Engine Architectures and their Performance Analysis
10.
The activity of obtaining
information
resources relevant to an
information
need from a collection of
information
resources. Searches can be based on metadata or on full-text indexing.
Learn more in: Information Retrieval by Linkage Discovery
11.
The processes, methods, and procedures involved in finding
information
from a data file, which now is typically a digital catalog, index, database, or the entire Web. The objective is to find all
information
relevant to the particular need while excluding all
information
that is irrelevant to that need.
Learn more in: Elementary School Students, Information Retrieval, and the Web
12.
The resource or document discovery from the Web.
Learn more in: The State of the Art in Web Mining
13.
To retrieve
information
useful or relevant to the query.
Learn more in: The Perspectives of Improving Web Search Engine Quality
14.
Field of
information
technology whose aim is to provide techniques to process queries for extracting
information
from corpus.
Learn more in: Semantic Measures
15.
The process of locating relevant documents from a large collection of data in physical and electronic forms.
Learn more in: Human and Social Aspects of Information Seeking in Cross-Language Information Retrieval
16.
Is the activity of obtaining
information
relevant to an
information
need from a collection of
information
resources. Searches can be based on metadata.
Learn more in: Integrating Ontologies and Bayesian Networks in Big Data Analysis
17.
The processes involved in the searching, finding, filtering, and presentation of
information
in an
information
system.
Learn more in: Potentials and Limitations of Cyber Knowledge Brokers as Knowledge Providers
18.
Information retrieval
is the process of exploring stored data for connected usage.
Learn more in: Web 2.0 Mash-Up System for Real Time Data Visualisation and Analysis Using OSS
19.
An activity of tracing
information
from a collection of
information
resources and recovering back the relevant results as per needs of
information
seekers.
Learn more in: Online Information Retrieval Systems Trending From Evolutionary to Revolutionary Approach
20.
Information retrieval
(IR) is the science of searching for
information
in documents, searching for documents themselves, searching for metadata which describe documents, or searching within hypertext collections such as the Internet or intranets.
Learn more in: Retrieving Non-Latin Information in a Latin Web: The Case of Greek
21.
Information retrieval
is concerned with the representation and knowledge and subsequent search for relevant
information
within these knowledge sources.
Information retrieval
provides the technology behind search engines.
Learn more in: Automatic Quality Assessment for Internet Pages
22.
Fully automatic process that responds to a user query by examining a collection of documents and returning a sorted document list that should be relevant to the user requirements as expressed in the query.
Learn more in: Analysis and Assessment of Cross-Language Question Answering Systems
23.
A sector of the computer sciences that focuses on implementing solutions for searching
information
in large collections of resources, both structured and unstructured, such as natural language texts, images, and videos.
Learn more in: Technological Help to Prevent and Reduce Cyberbullying
24.
Information retrieval
(IR) is the science of searching for
information
in documents for text, sound, images or data.
Learn more in: Networked Memex Based on Personal Digital Library
25.
The science of searching for
information
within a document, searching for the document itself, searching for metadata representing a document, or searching in a hypertext collection such as the Internet or an intranet.
Learn more in: Past, Present, and Future of Artificial Intelligence in Library Services
26.
Information retrieval
is concerned with the representation and knowledge and subsequent search for relevant
information
within these knowledge sources.
Information retrieval
provides the technology behind search engines.
Learn more in: Artificial Intelligence for Information Retrieval
27.
The art and science of searching for
information
in documents, searching for documents themselves, searching for metadata which describe documents, or searching within databases, whether relational stand-alone databases or hypertext networked databases such as the Internet or intranets, for text, sound, images or data.
Learn more in: Data Mining Fundamental Concepts and Critical Issues
28.
The extraction of hidden
information
from stored data.
Learn more in: Insight Into Big Data Analytics: Challenges, Recent Trends, and Future Prospects
29.
A sector of the computer sciences that focuses on implementing solutions for searching
information
in large collections of resources, both structured and unstructured, such as natural language texts, images, and videos.
Learn more in: Technological Help to Prevent and Reduce Cyberbullying
30.
Is the activity of searching
information
, relevant to user’s needs from a collection of documents. Documents usually are texts, but can be images, video, or sounds.
Learn more in: Unsupervised Automatic Keyphrases Extraction on Italian Datasets
31.
The process of discovering a set of documents from static collection which satisfy a user’s temporary
information
need defined by a query.
Learn more in: A Primer on Text-Data Analysis
32.
Information retrieval
is the science of searching for
information
in a document, searching for documents themselves, and also searching for metadata.
Learn more in: Original E-Assessment Methods
33.
A discipline that concerns effective transfer of
information
between creator of
information
and user of
information
. In the system perspective, representation, storage, organization, access, and distribution of
information
are studied, while, in the user perspective, various
information
seeking models and how to satisfy users’
information
need are studied.
Learn more in: Literature Review in Computational Linguistics Issues in the Developing Field of Consumer Informatics: Finding the Right Information for Consumer's Health Information Need
34.
Information retrieval
is concerned with the representation and knowledge and subsequent search for relevant
information
within these knowledge sources.
Information retrieval
provides the technology behind search engines.
Learn more in: User-Adapted Information Services
35.
The process of locating relevant documents from a large collection of data in physical and electronic forms.
Learn more in: Cognitive and Psychological Factors in Cross-Language Information Retrieval
36.
Information Retrieval
(IR) deals with the representation, storage, organization of, and access to
information
items. The representation and organization of the
information
items should provide the user with easy access to the
information
in which he is interested.
Learn more in: IT Application Development with Web Services
37.
Is the science of searching for objects (documents,
information
within documents, and metadata about documents, as well as that of searching relational databases and the World Wide Web) that match a search query.
Learn more in: Intangible Heritage Management and Multimodal Navigation
38.
An automatic process, methods, and procedures of searching and obtaining data that are relevant to an
information
need.
Learn more in: Using Online Digital Data to Infer Valuable Skills for the Modern Workforce
39.
The activity of obtaining
information
resources relevant to an
information
need from a collection of
information
resources. Searches can be based on metadata or on full-text indexing.
Learn more in: Data Linkage Discovery Applications
40.
Information retrieval
(IR) is the science of searching for
information
in documents, searching for documents themselves, searching for metadata which describe documents, or searching within hypertext collections such as the Internet or intranets. IR is further analyzed to text
retrieval
, document
retrieval
, and image, video, or sound
retrieval
. IR is an interdisciplinary scientific field based in computer science, library science,
information
science, cognitive psychology, linguistics, and statistics.
Learn more in: Towards a Model for Evaluating Web Retrieval Systems in Non-English Queries
41.
The process by which a user may access relevant
information
in a timely and effective manner.
Learn more in: Cross-Language Information Retrieval on the Web
42.
The scientific discipline that deals with the representation, organization, storage and maintenance of
information
objects and in particular textual objects. The representation and organization of the
information
items should provide the user with easy access to the relevant
information
and satisfy the user’s various
information
needs.
Learn more in: Indexing and Compressing Text
43.
The art and science of searching for
information
in documents, searching for documents themselves, searching for metadata which describe documents, or searching within databases, whether relational stand-alone databases or hypertext networked databases such as the Internet or intranets, for text, sound, images, or data.
Learn more in: Data Mining: Payoffs and Pitfalls
44.
Information retrieval
is concerned with the representation of knowledge and subsequent search for relevant
information
within these knowledge sources.
Information retrieval
provides the technology behind search engines.
Learn more in: Technologies for Information Access and Knowledge Management
45.
The science and process of finding and accessing
information
Learn more in: Legal Issues for Research and Practice in Computational Forensics
46.
The process of bringing down to the relevant
information
from various
information
resources and it can be of text
retrieval
, image
retrieval
etc.
Learn more in: An Insight Into Deep Learning Architectures
47.
Information retrieval
(IR) is the science of searching for
information
in documents, searching for documents themselves, searching for metadata which describe documents, or searching within databases, whether relational stand-alone databases or hypertextually-networked databases such as the World Wide Web7.
Learn more in: Exploiting Collaborative Tagging Systems to Unveil the User-Experience of Web Contents: An Operative Proposal
48.
To retrieve
information
from a dataset based on a submitted query.
Learn more in: Mathematical Retrieval Techniques for Online Mathematics Learning
49.
A process of obtaining
information
system resources relevant to an
information
need from a collection.
Learn more in: Information Processing in Research Paper Recommender System Classes
50.
Information retrieval
is concerned with the representation and knowledge and subsequent search for relevant
information
within these knowledge sources.
Information retrieval
provides the technology behind search engines.
Learn more in: Text Mining
51.
ML and DL learning techniques are used in applications like searching by search engines, text matching and search by finding similarity, and image filtering.
Learn more in: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Algorithms
52.
is the science of searching for documents, for
information
within documents.
Learn more in: Evaluating the Context Aware Browser: A Benchmark for Proactive, Mobile, and Contextual Web Search
53.
A set of procedures, which mainly deals with the search in text files. The procedures are often described in the context of library work.
Learn more in: The Use of Natural Language Processing for Market Orientation on Rare Diseases
54.
is the tracing and recovery of specific
information
from stored data.
Learn more in: Harnessing the Power of Artificial Intelligence for Modelling and Understanding Cultural Heritage Data
55.
Information retrieval
(IR) is finding material (usually documents) of an unstructured nature (usually text) that satisfies an
information
need from within large collections (usually stored on computers).
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