Communications of the ACM · 1995 · 97 citations · 6 references
ComputingComputer ScienceBayesian Data AnalysisInformation RetrievalNatural Language ProcessingDocument RepresentationProbabilistic RetrievalRetrieval ModelsWeb SearchBayesian Information RetrievalBayesian NetworksDocument RetrievalInformation Need RecognitionInformation Retrieval From TextProbabilistic Retrieval ModelsRetrieval
Information retrieval (IR) is the identification of documents or other units of information in a collection that are relevant to a particular information need. An information need is a set of questions to which someone would like to find an answer. Here are some examples of IR tasks: finding articles in the New York Times that discuss the Iran-Contra affair; searching the recent postings in a Usenet newsgroup for references to a particular model of personal computer; finding the entries referring to butterflies in an online CD-ROM encyclopedia.
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On Relevance, Probabilistic Indexing and Information Retrieval
M. E. Maron, J. L. Kuhns · Journal of the ACM · 1960 · 901 citations · Full text
Inference Networks for Document Retrieval
Howard R. Turtle, W. Bruce Croft · ACM SIGIR Forum · 2017 · 425 citations · Full text
Inference networks for document retrieval
Howard R. Turtle, W. Bruce Croft · 1989 · 212 citations · Full text