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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | The action of methods and procedures for recovering specific information from a collection of stored data. Source: European Union. (references) |
Information | The action of methods, and procedures for recovering specific information from a collection. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Information retrieval (IR) is the art and science of searching for information in documents, searching for documents themselves, searching for metadata which describes 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. There is a common confusion, however, between data, document, information, and text retrieval, and each of these have their own bodies of literature, theory, praxis and technologies.
IR is a broad interdisciplinary field, that draws on many other disciplines. Indeed, because it is so broad, it is normally poorly understood, being approached typically from only one perspective or another. It stands at the junction of many established fields, and draws upon cognitive psychology, information architecture, information design, human information behaviour, linguistics, semiotics, information science, computer science and librarianship.
See also: Geographic Information System
See also: Cross-language information retrieval
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Information retrieval."
Crosswords: INFORMATION RETRIEVAL |
| Specialty definitions using "INFORMATION RETRIEVAL": ANSI Z39.50 ♦ career resource technician, CAREER-GUIDANCE TECHNICIAN, career-information specialist, CBIR, content-based information retrieval ♦ GIRAS ♦ role indicator ♦ SUPERVISOR, IDENTIFICATION AND COMMUNICATIONS ♦ Wide Area Information Servers, world-wide web. (references) |
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Screenplays | This is information retrieval not information dispersal. (Brazil; writing credit: Terry Gilliam; Charles McKeown) | |
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Expression using "INFORMATION RETRIEVAL": location information retrieval procedure. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Danish | genfinding (retrieval). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | informatie-opslag en-naslag (information storage and retrieval), informatieontsluiting (information storage and retrieval), terugzoeken (retrieval), terugvinden van gegevens (retrieval). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | jälleenhaku (retrieval), haku (quest, search). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | recherche documentaire, recherche d'informations, recherche de l'information (information storage and retrieval), recherche automatique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Informationswiedergewinnung (information storage and retrieval), Informationsruckgewinnung (information storage and retrieval), Informationsretrieval (information storage and retrieval), Retrieval (retrieval). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανάκτηση πληροφοριών (retrieval), ανάκτηση (recaption, recapture, reclamation, recovery, regaining, regainment, repossession, retrieval). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אחזור מי"ע, "לית מי"ע. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | riferimento di informazioni (retrieval), ricerca delle informazioni (information storage and retrieval), reperimento delle informazioni (information storage and retrieval). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 情 検索 , イン"ーダンス整合 (impedance matching, infant, inferiority complex, inferno, infield fly, infighting, informal, informal dress, informal organization, information, information analyst, information broker, information commercial, information democracy, information disclosure, information gap, information literacy, information processing, information processor, information provider, information revolution, information science, information society, information syndicate, information system, information theory, information utility, informed consent, informer, infrastructure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | インフォメーションリトリーバル , じょうほうけ"さく. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | informationay etrievalray recuperação da informação (retrieval). (various references) búsqueda de la información (information storage and retrieval), búsqueda automática (retrieval). (various references) informationsåtervinning (retrieval). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"INFORMATION RETRIEVAL" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: information retreival, information retrival. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Expressions | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Bibliography |
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