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| Information retrieval: Information retrieval (IR) is finding relevant information from a large collection of data. IR systems work by indexing the data and ranking documents based on their relevance to a query. See also Relevance, Information, Artificial Intelligence, AI Research, Knowledge representation._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Marvin Minsky on Information Retrieval - Dictionary of Arguments
I 205 Information Retrieval/Minsky: [association]: (…) if you start with enough clues to arouse one of your apple-nemes, it will automatically arouse memories of the other properties and qualities of apples and create a more complete impression, simulus, or hallucination of the experience of seeing, feeling, and even of eating an apple. >Terminology/Minsky. This way, a simple loop machine can reconstruct a larger whole from clues about only certain of its parts! Many thinkers have assumed that such abilities lie beyond the reach of all machines. Yet here we see that retrieving the whole from a few of its parts requires no magic leap past logic and necessity, but only simple societies of agents that recognize when certain requirements are met. >Society of Minds/Minsky. This method for arousing complete recollections from incomplete clues — we could call it reminding — is powerful but imperfect. Our speaker might have had in mind not an apple, but some other round, red, fruit, such as a tomato or a pomegranate. Nonetheless, to think effectively, we often have to turn aside from certainty — to take some chance of being wrong. Our memory systems are powerful because they're not constrained to be perfect! >Memory, >Memory/Minsky._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Minsky I Marvin Minsky The Society of Mind New York 1985 Minsky II Marvin Minsky Semantic Information Processing Cambridge, MA 2003 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-28