Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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n. (context information science English) 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 hypertext-networked databases such as the World Wide Web.
Wikipedia
Information retrieval (IR) is the activity of obtaining information resources relevant to an information need from a collection of information resources. Searches can be based on full-text or other content-based indexing.
Automated information retrieval systems are used to reduce what has been called " information overload". Many universities and public libraries use IR systems to provide access to books, journals and other documents. Web search engines are the most visible IR applications.
Usage examples of "information retrieval".
Still another area advanced by Harvest was information retrieval, which used a unit known as Tractor.
The greatest complexity seemed to be in the information retrieval net, rather than the protein-based data storage, though both were not only fiendishly ornate, but largely unmapped--it had been an autolearning-style system which had assembled itself in a highly non-linear fashion after the chip had been installed.
The greatest complexity seemed to be in the information retrieval net, rather than the protein-based data storage, though both were not only fiendishly ornate, but largely unmapped—.
The greatest complexity seemed to be in the information retrieval net, rather than the protein-based data storage, though both were not only fiendishly ornate, but largely unmapped -- it had been an autolearning-style system which had assembled itself in a highly non-linear fashion after the chip had been installed.
The greatest complexity seemed to be in the information retrieval net, rather than the protein-based data storage, though both were not only fiendishly ornate, but largely unmappedit had been an autolearning-style system which had assembled itself in a highly non-linear fashion after the chip had been installed.
Such an information retrieval would be expected of a visitor, and draw no attention.
So far as he was concerned, that wasn't a patch on the way she navigated the thickets of information retrieval.
It was a far cry from the LiteraTec office in London, where we had enjoyed the most up-to-date information retrieval systems.