information retrieval

noun

1. the systematic storage and recovery of data, as from a file, card catalog, or the memory bank of a computer. : IR

information retrieval

noun

1. computing the process of recovering specific information from stored data

Word History and Origins

Origin of information retrieval¹

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

There have been decades of progress on different areas of search, from answering queries to summarizing documents to structuring information, says Ziqi Zhang at the University of Sheffield, UK, who studies information retrieval on the web.

From MIT Technology Review

Retrieving parts of documents, AKA passage retrieval, or sub-document retrieval, in information retrieval is not new, as such.

From Search Engine Land

OpenAI built its own information retrieval system GPT-3 so that it could create superintelligence.

From Search Engine Watch