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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
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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 in an article ‘As We May Think’ by Vannevar Bush in 1945. Thereafter the first implementations of information retrieval systems were introduced in the 1950s and 1960s. Since then description processes, such as the creation of indexes from records, which, under pre-modern conditions, were carried out by human syntactic labour have been largely transferred to technology, strongly implying a desire to avoid the costs of direct human labour.
“The ultimate economic reason for software development is the mechanization of mental labour and intellectual work (Nake 1992).
Selection power is understood as the human ability to make informed choices between objects or representations of objects (Warner 2007b) and has been conceived as the primary aim for information retrieval systems. Selection power is valued by a searcher as an end in itself and also reduces their labour in searching. For information retrieval systems, selection power is...
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