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  2. Calvin Mooers - Wikipedia

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    Mooers received the American Society for Information Science's Award of Merit in 1978. The citation reads in part: He was a participant in early developmental work on digital computers, a researcher, author, and implementer of applications in information retrieval; and a prophet in the 1950s describing the future importance of what is now called computer networks and distributive processing ...

  3. Information retrieval - Wikipedia

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    Information retrieval is the science [1] of searching for information in a document, searching for documents themselves, and also searching for the metadata that describes data, and for databases of texts, images or sounds. Automated information retrieval systems are used to reduce what has been called information overload. An IR system is a ...

  4. Cranfield experiments - Wikipedia

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    The Cranfield experiments were extremely influential in the information retrieval field, itself a subject of considerable interest in the post-World War II era when the quantity of scientific research was exploding. It was the topic of continual debate for years and led to several computer projects to test its results.

  5. Evaluation measures (information retrieval) - Wikipedia

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    Indexing and classification methods to assist with information retrieval have a long history dating back to the earliest libraries and collections however systematic evaluation of their effectiveness began in earnest in the 1950s with the rapid expansion in research production across military, government and education and the introduction of computerised catalogues.

  6. SMART Information Retrieval System - Wikipedia

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    The SMART (System for the Mechanical Analysis and Retrieval of Text) Information Retrieval System is an information retrieval system developed at Cornell University in the 1960s. [1] Many important concepts in information retrieval were developed as part of research on the SMART system, including the vector space model , relevance feedback ...

  7. Search and Recover - AOL Help

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    Search and Recover can rescue crucial work and cherished memories you thought were gone forever. It's fast and easy to use, and even data lost years ago can be recovered.

  8. D E A R Iraq Weekly Status Report - HuffPost

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    Sources and Contact Information Notes and Source Citations This report provides weekly updates in the eight key areas identified as pillars of U.S. government policy for victory in Iraq. 3 5 8 10 13 18 27 28 30 31 32

  9. Human–computer information retrieval - Wikipedia

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    Human–computer information retrieval (HCIR) is the study and engineering of information retrieval techniques that bring human intelligence into the search process. It combines the fields of human-computer interaction (HCI) and information retrieval (IR) and creates systems that improve search by taking into account the human context, or through a multi-step search process that provides the ...