0 the process of finding stored information on a computer
1 the process of finding information that is stored in a computer, or of getting it from the internet, etc.:
Ontologies have come into widespread use in many fields, including knowledge representation and integration, information retrieval and extraction, and conceptual model design.
After the preprocessing has been done, we parse the text, using the same type of parser as in information retrieval.
Applications are found in composition, information retrieval and music theory.
Capturing multimodal design activities in support of information retrieval and process analysis.
In information retrieval, for instance, stored descriptions must often be compared with one another, and the basic operation below is once again unification.
It is related to number theory, algebra and category theory, and it has applications to information retrieval systems, automatic code generation, data transformations and coding.
Information retrieval and information-filtering systems are applicable in order to minimize search difficulties, aiming to aid the user in the search for worthwhile information.
As previously noted, the humancomputer inter face is typically less well understood than other aspects of information retrieval systems.
