information retrieval

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information retrieval

n
(Computer Science) computing the process of recovering specific information from stored data
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information retrieval

n (Comput) → ricupero delle informazioni
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Keywords: Information retrieval; Information management; Information retrieval model; Seeking information; Organization
The purpose of the study generally is to investigate the relationship between information retrieval tools, library environment and utilization of the academic library by students.
Computer scientists, electrical engineers, and other researchers from India and Iran present 12 essays on the use of bio-inspired computing for information retrieval applications.
Information retrieval systems can be categorized into classes based on their architectures: centralized and distributed.
Today, the paucity of the amount of recovered subject materials is not the main problem in Internet seeking, rather there is a new problem as "too much information retrieval".
First part of the paper surveys the undergraduate courses in two curriculum areas, computer networks and web information retrieval. The content of the survey includes the topics covered, the textbooks used, and major projects in these courses.
Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval tries to do that, as it states in the preface:
Al-Lahham proposed an efficient and effective "Locality Preserving Mapping" scheme that allows text databases representatives to be mapped onto a global information retrieval system such as Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval Systems (P2PIR).
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