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Information Retrieval

Information Retrieval
This assignment will examine various instances of information retrieval found in the public domain today and analyse the contrasting levels of description labour found within each one. The system and searches shown will be discussed with reference to the following key concepts, the selection power enabled by the system, description labour undertaken by the system producer and the amount of search labour involved within each example.
“Information retrieval is the science and technology concerned with the effective and efficient retrieval of information for the subsequent use by interested parties” (Crestani F. & Lalmas M, 2000). The central problem in IR is the quest to find the set of relevant documents, which is usually amongst a large collection, containing the information sought thereby satisfying an information need usually expressed by a user with a query.
The idea of using computers to search for relevant pieces of information for was popularized......


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