Information Retrieval. To provide an effective laboratory and radiologic information retrieval system to provide for appropriate conduct of the educational programs and quality and timely patient care.
Information Retrieval. An airport sponsor may use any form of record keeping it deems appropriate, so long as the information and records produced by the pavement survey can be retrieved to provide a report to the FAA as may be required.
Information Retrieval. During the term of this Agreement, Franchisee shall afford Franchisor access via telephone modem to Franchisee's computer system to enable Franchisor to periodically upload and download data to facilitate Franchisor's performance of automated payroll and related services hereunder.
Information Retrieval. Information Retrieval can be defined as “a field concerned with the structure, analysis, organisation, storage, searching, and retrieval of information” (Xxxxxx, 1968, p. V). The field has made significant advances in the last fifty years, but this definition from 1968 is still appropriate, even though nowadays the focus lies more on the last two items: searching and retrieval of information. The type of information is most often text documents, and since the rise of the internet,
Information Retrieval. Information Retrieval remains a core technology within PATHS. The field has continued to advance since the publication of the initial state of the art monitoring report (D1.2) with work being published in a variety of conferences (including SIGIR 2011, ECIR 2012, CIKM 2011, WSDM 2012 and WWW 2012) and journals (including Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Information Processing and Management, Information Retrieval and Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval). The PATHS team have monitored these venues and also attended some of the conferences. Despite these continued advances the state of the art in Information Retrieval remains largely as described in the initial state of the art monitoring report. An interesting paper that has been published in ACM SIGIR Forum is a report entitled “Frontiers, Challenges, and Opportunities for Information Retrieval1” edited by Xxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx and Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx. The report is based on a three-day workshop (SWIRL 2012 – the second Strategic Workshop on Information Retrieval in Lorne) held in Australia in 2012 and involving many of the best known IR academics in the field. From discussions six main themes emerged as future long-term research objectives for the IR research community: • Not just a ranked list. This theme seeks to move IR systems from ad hoc retrieval (query in; ranked list out) to support other forms of information seeking and more interactive forms of use. • Help for users. This theme considers how IR can be extended to assist various users, e.g. those with physical or learning difficulties.
Information Retrieval. During the term of this Agreement: (a) Franchisee shall afford Franchisor access to Franchisee's Computer System to enable Franchisor to periodically upload and download data to facilitate Franchisor's performance of automated payroll and related services hereunder, and to provide Franchisor with all requested data and information relating to the Franchised Business; and (b) Franchise shall only have access to the data and information relating to the operation of the Franchised Business. Franchisor shall be the owner of all data used in connection with the Franchised Business, and Franchisor shall have no responsibility or liability to Franchisee as a result of any loss, destruction or corruption of any data supplied by or to Franchisee in connection with the Franchised Business, including but not limited to any data back-up services provided by Franchisor.
Information Retrieval. Information Retrieval can be defined as “a field concerned with the structure, analysis, organisation, storage, searching, and retrieval of information” (Xxxxxx, 1968, p. V). The field has made significant advances in the last fifty years, but this definition from 1968 is still appropriate, even though nowadays the focus lies more on the last two items: searching and retrieval of information. The type of information is most often text documents, and since the rise of the internet, web page search is one of the key areas of research. In comparison to tabular (database) data, text data is unstructured, and the complicated task of computers ‘understanding’ language to retrieve documents relevant to a user’s search goal (or information need) is at the core of IR (Xxxxx et al., 2010). The concept of information needs is also worth discussing here, as it will be used in some of the following chapters. Xxxxx (1997) mentions that information needs arise when someone finds themselves in a problem situation they can no longer manage with the knowledge that they possess, and as such is the catalyst for information seeking behaviour, i.e. using a search system. More practically, an information need is often regarded as a user’s end goal in a specific search session, a description of the information or the answer they are looking for. This can be the same or overlap with the actual query a user enters in a search engine, but not necessarily. Some web search examples of information needs might be “how far can a trebuchet launch a 90kg projectile?”, or “find a recipe for hummus”. In archaeology, our information needs are often list-based retrieval questions based on What, Where and When. Some examples are “find all excavations in a twenty kilometre radius around Leiden” or “find all documents about Early Me- dieval cremations”. The first type is common in commercial archaeology, where in desk-based assessments the archaeologist is looking for sites nearby a building de- velopment area. The second type is more typical of academic archaeology, where research is often focused on specific time periods, artefacts, and/or contexts. The information need is strongly related to relevance, a fundamental concept in IR. In short, a document is relevant if it contains the information the user is looking for when entering a query. This sounds relatively simple, but there are many factors that influence whether a user finds a document relevant. Simply returning all documents that conta...
