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.: --
Finally, it can be directly and/or indirectly employed for other information retrieval problems.
The information retrieval engine selects a subset of the available documents based on a number of keywords derived from the question at hand.
One of the reasons that textual information retrieval is so well suited to pure functional programming is that the database is essentially static.
The difficulty of pinpointing and verifying the precise answer makes question answering more challenging than the common information retrieval task done by search engines.
This will be achieved through the effective processing of visual typological knowledge leading to design information retrieval and interpretation by the framework software modules.
The conceptualization of "reading" as an active process of sign-making, and not just information retrieval, supports both creative and oppositional meaning making.
However, recall and precision measures derived from information retrieval have to be adjusted for the task of word alignment.
As previously noted, the humancomputer inter face is typically less well understood than other aspects of information retrieval systems.