false drop
nounEtymology From rod- (needle-) based retrieval in edge-punched card-based data systems.
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:
- Related terms
- false hit, false retrieval