Information retrieval (IR) in computing and information science is the task of identifying and retrieving information system resources that are relevant...

In cryptography, a private information retrieval (PIR) protocol is a protocol that allows a user to retrieve an item from a server in possession of a...

Evaluation measures for an information retrieval (IR) system assess how well an index, search engine, or database returns results from a collection of...

In information science and information retrieval, relevance denotes how well a retrieved document or set of documents meets the information need of the...

Music information retrieval (MIR) is the interdisciplinary science of retrieving information from music. Those involved in MIR may have a background in...

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a technique that enables large language models (LLMs) to retrieve and incorporate new information. With RAG, LLMs...

In the context of information retrieval, a thesaurus (plural: "thesauri") is a form of controlled vocabulary that seeks to dictate semantic manifestations...

Ranking of query is one of the fundamental problems in information retrieval (IR), the scientific/engineering discipline behind search engines. Given...

In pattern recognition, information retrieval, object detection and classification (machine learning), precision and recall are performance metrics that...

Cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) is a subfield of information retrieval dealing with retrieving information written in a language different...

The Information Retrieval Facility (IRF), founded 2006 and located in Vienna, Austria, was a research platform for networking and collaboration for professionals...

Content-based image retrieval, also known as query by image content (QBIC) and content-based visual information retrieval (CBVIR), is the application...

Adversarial information retrieval (adversarial IR) is a topic in information retrieval related to strategies for working with a data source where some...

Legal information retrieval is the science of information retrieval applied to legal text, including legislation, case law, and scholarly works. Accurate...

on Information Retrieval (ECIR) is the main European research conference for the presentation of new results in the field of information retrieval (IR)...

(System for the Mechanical Analysis and Retrieval of Text) Information Retrieval System is an information retrieval system developed at Cornell University...

Multimedia information retrieval (MMIR or MIR) is a research discipline of computer science that aims at extracting semantic information from multimedia...

storage and retrieval efficiency for specific kinds of datasets. Pick was originally implemented as the Generalized Information Retrieval Language System...

Geographic information retrieval (GIR) or geographical information retrieval systems are search tools for searching the Web, enterprise documents, and...

In information retrieval and natural language processing reification is the process by which an abstract idea about a person, place or thing, is turned...

descriptions of an information need to a few words. Document retrieval is sometimes referred to as, or as a branch of, text retrieval. Text retrieval is a branch...

In information retrieval, Okapi BM25 (BM is an abbreviation of best matching) is a ranking function used by search engines to estimate the relevance of...

Temporal information retrieval (T-IR) is an emerging area of research related to the field of information retrieval (IR) and a considerable number of sub-areas...

Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, or MEDLARS Online) is a bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information. It includes bibliographic...

cross-language information retrieval". Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval. Department...

well-established information science areas Knowledge organization Library studies Information architecture Information behavior Interactive information retrieval Information...

In information retrieval, dwell time denotes the time which a user spends viewing a document after clicking a link on a search engine results page (SERP)...

An image retrieval system is a computer system used for browsing, searching and retrieving images from a large database of digital images. Most traditional...

Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) is a research center at the Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst. It...

XML retrieval, or XML information retrieval, is the content-based retrieval of documents structured with XML (eXtensible Markup Language). As such it...