Information retrieval

Information retrieval (IR) is the art and science of searching for information in documents, searching for documents themselves, searching for metadata which describe documents, or searching within databases, whether relational stand alone databases or hypertext networked databases such as the Internet or intranets, for text, sound, images or data. There is a common confusion, however, between data retrieval, document retrieval, information retrieval, and text retrieval, and each of these have their own bodies of literature, theory, praxis and technologies.

Major figures in information retrieval

• Gerard Salton
• W. Bruce Croft
• Karen Spärck Jones
• C. J. van Rijsbergen
• S. Dominich

Awards in this field: Tony Kent Strix award

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