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81Mid-air retrieval — A helicopter with a long hook can catch a parachuting object in mid air, as seen here in a practice run for the planned retrieval of Genesis. Mid air retrieval is a technique used in atmospheric reentry when the reentering vehicle is incapable of …
82European Conference on Information Retrieval — The European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) is the main European research conference for the presentation of new results in the field of information retrieval (IR).It is organized by the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the… …
83Adversarial information retrieval — (adversarial IR) is a topic in information retrieval that addresses tasks such as gathering, indexing, filtering, retrieving and ranking information from collections wherein a subset has been manipulated maliciously. Adversarial IR includes the… …
84Private information retrieval — In cryptography, a private information retrieval (PIR) protocol allows a user to retrieve an item from a server in possession of a database without revealing which item she is retrieving. PIR is a weaker version of 1 out of n oblivious transfer,… …
85Lead retrieval — is a means for capturing and follow up of sales leads generated at an event, trade show, exhibition, or conference. Published reports show that up to 70% of sales leads captured at an event are not followed up on by a sales person. This is mainly …
86Text REtrieval Conference — Die Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) ist eine Reihe von wissenschaftlichen Konferenzen zum Thema Information Retrieval. Diese Konferenzen sollen die Forschung im Bereich Information Retrieval unterstützen und fördern. Dazu wird die Infrastruktur… …
87Information Retrieval Specialist Group — The Information Retrieval Specialist Group (IRSG) or BCS IRSG is a specialist group of the British Computer Society concerned with supporting communication between researchers and practitioners, promoting the use of IR methods in industry and… …
88Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval — SIGIR is the Association for Computing Machinery s Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval. The scope of the group s specialty is the theory and application of computers to the acquisition, organization, storage, retrieval and… …
89Soul Retrieval — In a number of shamanic traditions, illness is understood to have supernatural causes, including soul loss, the stealing of a soul by spirits. It is the task of the shaman to undertake the dangerous journey to the other world (also called… …
90Information retrieval query language — An information retrieval query language is a query language used to make queries into database, where the semantics of the query are defined not by a precise rendering of a formal syntax, but by an interpretation of the most suitable results of… …
