information retrieval
noun
: the techniques of storing and recovering and often disseminating recorded data especially through the use of a computerized system
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Roles that involve frequent writing, information retrieval, editing or client communication are things that AI excelled at according to the study.
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Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 July 2025
How Search Is Becoming Understanding Search used to be about information retrieval.
—Lior Pozin, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
Early information retrieval would just delete out all of your words.
—Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 1 May 2025
The answer goes beyond citation accuracy to address how useful and accurate large language models are for any information retrieval purpose.
—Manas Gaur, The Conversation, 17 Apr. 2025
The faculty and students use the CEDAR research lab to work on technologies involving pattern recognition, machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, and computational linguistics.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 May 2022
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Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 July 2025
How Search Is Becoming Understanding Search used to be about information retrieval.
—Lior Pozin, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
Early information retrieval would just delete out all of your words.
—Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 1 May 2025
The answer goes beyond citation accuracy to address how useful and accurate large language models are for any information retrieval purpose.
—Manas Gaur, The Conversation, 17 Apr. 2025
The faculty and students use the CEDAR research lab to work on technologies involving pattern recognition, machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, and computational linguistics.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 May 2022
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“Information retrieval.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/information%20retrieval. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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