INFORMATIONRETRIEVAL
Information retrieval
Information retrieval is 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.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Information retrieval
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information retrieval
Noun
- 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 Web.
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