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Information Retrieval Operations

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Information retrieval processing

Definition

An information retrieval system for collections of unstructured text can be viewed as a set of processing modules, beginning with lexical analysis of documents and leading ultimately to a retrieval process in which user queries are matched against documents. The processes which make up an information retrieval system are referred to as information retrieval operations. In some cases, the end goal is not the retrieval of matching documents from a collection but an auxiliary application, such as document categorization, summarization, or filtering of information from an information stream. While the basic operations in information retrieval systems are similar, there can be considerable variability in the model or details of implementation, making evaluation of information retrieval system effectiveness an important step.

Historical Background

Early work in information retrieval began in the 1950s with the recognition that words in...

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  1. Library, Archival and Information Studies, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Edie Rasmussen

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  1. Edie Rasmussen
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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Library, Archival & Inf. Studies, The Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Edie Rasmussen

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Rasmussen, E. (2018). Information Retrieval Operations. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_940

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