Information Retrieval Discipline

An Information Retrieval Discipline is a Computing Science Subdiscipline that investigates Computing Systems that can solve an Information Retrieval Tasks.

• AKA: Information Retrieval.
• Context:
  • It can have an Information Retrieval Journal.
  • It can have an Information Retrieval Textbook.
  • It can propose Information Retrieval Algorithms.
  • It can produce Information Retrieval Systems.
  • It can have an Information Retrieval Conference, such as ACM SIGIR Conference.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • an Information Extraction Discipline.
• See: Information Retrieval Subject Area.

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References

2008

• (Manning et al., 2008) ⇒ Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Hinrich Schütze. (2008). “Introduction to Information Retrieval.” Cambridge University Press. ISBN:0521865719.
  • http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/information-retrieval-book.html

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