information retrieval
The science of searching for information in documents, searching for documents…The 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 hypertextually-networked databases such as the World Wide Web.
» As yardsticks to measure the effectiveness of information retrieval there exist those called 'recall ratio' and 'precision ratio'.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)The 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 hypertextually-networked databases such as the World Wide Web.
информацио́нный по́искinformaciónnyj póisk
Examples
1 sentencesAs yardsticks to measure the effectiveness of information retrieval there exist those called 'recall ratio' and 'precision ratio'.
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1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable