2.1 INFORMATION RETRIEVAL 2.1.1 What is Information Retrieval? The construal of the term information retrieval can be very broad. Just getting a credit card out of your wallet so that you can indite in the card number is a form of information retrieval. However‚ as an academic field of study‚ information retrieval might be defined thus: Information retrieval (IR) is finding material (customarily documents) of an unstructured nature (conventionally text) that satiates an information need from within
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COMP323 FOUNDATION OF CHINESE COMPUTING Lecture 2: Concept of Character Set‚ Code Set and Encoding Monday‚ 24 September‚ 2012 Student Name: _________________ Student ID: _________________ NOTE: Please hand in your answers before the end of class. Exercise 1: (a) How many characters can be encoded with the 3-bit codes? (b) To encode 100 characters‚ at least how many bits are required? (c) For a character set with n number of characters‚ what is the minimum number of bits required
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and not her name. This situation comes down to Thomas’ memory and how he encoded the information of where‚ when‚ and how he met this girl and her name. Memory is defined as the structures and processes used for the storage and retrieval of information. Encoding is defined as the transfer of information into the memory system. This is done at different levels. Memory information takes many forms. When any information comes into us‚ it has to be changed so that it can be stored. A good example of this
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memory works over time is encoding and storage. People encode memories so the information can be stored. Then the storage represents the retention of encoded messages over time. The last phase in the memory process is the retrieval. Retrieval is the act of recalling information when you need it. There are many ways to retrieve memories‚ but most people use mnemonics to help improve their skills at recalling information. Mnemonics are learning aids and devices that involve retrieval cues to help improve
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World War 1 Assessment Task 1 Why did Australians enlist in the war (AIF)? Firstly‚ Australian soldiers (or any soldiers in general) enlisted in the war for nationalistic pride in the aftermath of Federation. Australians‚ young men in particular‚ wanted to support their newly-formed country and show "Mother England" that the country could stand on its own two feet. Soldiers in the AIF had many reasons to join in the war and fight Germany‚ one of which being a sense of duty to the Mother country
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Likewise‚ the information stored in the LTM can carry the same risk if it is not utilized frequently‚ becoming weaker over the time provoking a failure of memory retrieval. Regardless of whether we have been able to encode and store our memories correctly‚ our brain may fail to retrieve it. One of the reasons why this happens is cue-dependent forgetting‚ which means that we do not have enough connectors or clues to help us identify information stored in our memory. Additionally‚ we have what is called
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One April morning‚ Martha House‚ president of Trap-Ease‚ entered her office in Moncton‚ New Brunswick. She paused for a moment to contemplate the Ralph Waldo Emerson quotation that she had framed and hung near her desk: “If a man [can] make a better mousetrap than his neighbor … the world will make a beaten path to his door.” Perhaps‚ she mused‚ Emerson knew something that she didn’t. She had the better mousetrap—Trap-Ease—but the world didn’t seem all that excited about it. Martha had just
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TRAP-EASE AMERICA CASE QUESTIONS (Read Chapter 2) 10 POINTS 1. Has Martha identified the best target market for Trap Ease? What other market segments might the firm target? (2 points) Martha targeted women for her product and she feels that this is the best group to target because they don’t like mess or the danger of the traditional mousetraps. At first this may seem like a good marketing segment however‚ Martha could improve it. Women are too broad of a group so she should segment women into
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No Longer at Ease From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia No Longer at Ease is a 1960 novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. It is the story of an Igbo (also spelled Ibo) man‚ Obi Okonkwo‚ who leaves his village for a British education and a job in the Nigerian colonial civil service‚ but who struggles to adapt to a Western lifestyle and ends up taking a bribe. The novel is the sequel to Achebe ’s Things Fall Apart‚ which concerned the struggle of Obi Okonkwo ’s grandfather Okonkwo against the changes
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Presentation on Stuart Hall’s “Encoding/decoding” Hall‚ Stuart. “Encoding/decoding.” Culture‚ Media‚ Language. Ed. Stuart Hall et al. New York: Routledge‚ 1980. 128-138. Hall begins by pointing out that traditional research on communication has been critcised for being too linear by interpreting communication as a mere “circulation circuit” (128). He asserts that a better approach‚ conceptualised by Marx‚ is one which encompasses additional distinctive aspects of communication so that the
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