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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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