information retrieval

English

Noun

information retrieval (uncountable)

1. (information science) 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.

Related terms

• document retrieval

Translations

science of searching

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 信息檢索／信息检索 (xìnxī jiǎnsuǒ), 資訊檢索／资讯检索 (zīxùn jiǎnsuǒ)

• Finnish: tiedonhaku (fi)
• French: recherche d’information f
• Japanese: 情報検索 (じょうほうけんさく, jōhō-kensaku)
• Russian: информацио́нный по́иск m (informaciónnyj póisk)