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false drop en · NOUN

Etymology

From rod- (needle-) based retrieval in edge-punched card-based data systems.

Meanings

1. A non-targeted card that falls out from a card data deck, when a rod search is performed.
2. Targets, hits, that are not relevant in an information retrieval search.
3. Retrieved, but unwanted, document representations.
4. noise in an information retrieval search.
   • False drop (a): a false drop is a retrieved item that meets the syntactic requirements of a query but not the semantic requirements of a query […] 1992, Carolyn Watters, Dictionary of Information Science and Technology, Boston: Academic Press:

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Relateds

false hit · false retrieval