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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) is a type of generative artificial intelligence that has information retrieval capabilities. It modifies interactions...

This is a list of free information retrieval libraries, which are libraries used in software development for performing it retrieval functions. It is not...

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

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

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

Human–computer information retrieval (HCIR) is the study and engineering of information retrieval techniques that bring human intelligence into the search...

The (standard) Boolean model of information retrieval (BIR) is a classical information retrieval (IR) model and, at the same time, the first and most-adopted...

Cognitive models of information retrieval rest on the mix of areas such as cognitive science, human-computer interaction, information retrieval, and library...

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

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...

collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval, movement, dissemination, and protection of information. Practitioners within and outside the field...

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

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...

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

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

An automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS or AS/RS) consists of a variety of computer-controlled systems for automatically placing and retrieving...

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

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...