Retrieval
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Retrieval could refer to:
- Information retrievalInformation retrievalInformation retrieval is the area of study concerned with searching for documents, for information within documents, and for metadata about documents, as well as that of searching structured storage, relational databases, and the World Wide Web...
- Text retrieval
- Image retrievalImage retrievalAn image retrieval system is a computer system for browsing, searching and retrieving images from a large database of digital images. Most traditional and common methods of image retrieval utilize some method of adding metadata such as captioning, keywords, or descriptions to the images so that...
- Document retrievalDocument retrievalDocument retrieval is defined as the matching of some stated user query against a set of free-text records. These records could be any type of mainly unstructured text, such as newspaper articles, real estate records or paragraphs in a manual...
- Music information retrievalMusic information retrievalMusic information retrieval is the interdisciplinary science of retrieving information from music. MIR is a small but growing field of research with many real-world applications...
- Medical retrieval
- Data retrievalData retrievalData retrieval, in database management, involves extracting the wanted data from a database. The two primary forms of the retrieved data are reports and queries....
- Knowledge retrievalKnowledge retrievalKnowledge Retrieval seeks to return information in a structured form, consistent with human cognitive processes as opposed to simple lists of data items...
- In psychology, retrieval refers to the process of recallRecall (memory)Recall in memory refers to the retrieval of events or information from the past. Along with encoding and storage, it is one of the three core processes of memory. There are three main types of recall: free recall, cued recall and serial recall...
ing information that is stored in memory