[Sigia-l] RE: first principals

[Jesse James Garrett]

Anne Hjortshoj wrote:
> Just a note - IR (Information Retrieval) is an area of computer science
> dealing with natural language processing. Not to get bogged down in
> semantics, and not to suggest that it can't also be used in the field of IA
> ... just wanted to point out that the term is already in use in another
> field.

This seems (to my untrained eye) different from the sense in which this
term is applied by library science. Perhaps one of our resident
librarians can clarify the distinction between lib-sci IR and comp-sci IR?

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