2. Information Retrieval (IR) is
finding material of an
unstructured nature that
satisfies an information need
from within large collection
Information Retrieval (IR) is
the task of representing,
storing, organizing and
offering access to
information items.
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What information consumes is rather
obvious: it consumes the attention of its
recipients. Hence a wealth of
information creates a poverty of
attention, and a need to allocate that
attention efficiently among the
overabundance of information sources
that might consume it.
Simon, H. A. (1971). Designing organizations in an
information-rich world. In Greenberger, M. (Ed.), Computers,
communications, and the public interest (pp. 37–53).
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