false drop

noun

Etymology

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

Definitions

  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. + 1 more definition
    1. 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 […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for false drop. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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