Distinguish between IRS and DBMS: 1.

One of the most distinguish features of DBMSs is that they offer an advanceDataModellingFacility(DMF) including DataDefinitonLanguage and DataManipulationLanguage for modelling and manipulating data. IRSs do not offer an advance DMF. Usually datamodelling in irs is restricted to classification of objects. 2. A major strength of the DataDefinitonLanguage of DBMS is the capability to define the data integrity constraints. In IRSs such validation mechanisms are less developed. 3. DBMSs provides precise semantics. IRSs most of the time provides imprecise semantics. 4. DBMSs has structured data format. Wereas, IRSs is characterised by unstructured data format. 5. Query specification is complete in DBMS. In IRS query specification is incomplete. 6. Query language is artificial in DBMS. In IRS query language is near to natural language. In DBMS, one normally looks for an exact match. In IR, more generally one is satisfied with the partial match and then select best one among the selected items. Both IRS and DBMSs are equipped with some basis data management facilities and application development facilities. Often DBMSs are the more advancedin this respects.

Relation and difference between information retrieval and information extraction?

Information retrieval is the activity of obtaining information resources relevant to an information need from a collection of information resources. Searches can be based on metadata

or on full-text indexing. Information extraction (IE) is the task of automatically extracting structured information from unstructured and/or semi-structured machine-readable documents. In most of the cases this activity concerns processing human language texts by means of natural language processing (NLP). Recent activities in multimedia document processing like automatic annotation and content extraction out of images/audio/video could be seen as information extraction. Machine Learning is probably the most homogeneous of these three terms, and the most consistently applied--it's limited to the pattern-extraction (or pattern-matching) algorithms themselves. Of the terms you mentioned, "Machine Learning" is the one most used by Academic Departments to describe their Curricula, their academic departments, and their research programs, as well as the term most used in academic journals and conferences proceedings. ML is clearly the least context-dependent of the terms you mentioned. Information Retrieval and Data Mining are much closer to describing complete commercial processes--i.e., from user query to retrieval/delivery of a relevant results. An ML algorithms might be somewhere in that process flow, and in the more sophisticated applications, often is, but that't not a formal requirement. In addition, the term Data Mining seems usually to refer to application of some process flow on big data (i.e, > 2BG) and therefore usually includes a distributed processing (map-reduce) component near the front of that workflow. So Information Retrieval (IR) and Data Mining (DM) are related to Machine Learning (ML) in a Infrastructure-Algorithm kind of way. In other words, Machine Learning is one source of tools used to solve problems in Information Retrieval. But it's only one source of tools. But IR doesn't depend on ML--for instance, a particular IR project might be storage and rapid retrieval of the fully-indexed data responsive to a user's search query IR, the crux of which is optimizing performance of the data flow, i.e., the round-trip from query to delivering the search results to the user. Prediction or pattern matching might not be useful here. Likewise, a DM project might use an ML algorithm for the predictive engine, yet a DM project is more likely to also be concerned with the entire processing flow--for instance, parallel computation techniques for efficient input of an enormous data volume (TB perhaps) which delivers a proto-result to a processing engine for computation of descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation, distribution, etc. on the variables (columns). Lastly consider the Netflix Prize. This competition was directed solely to Machine Learning--the focus was on the prediction algorithm, as evidenced by the fact that there was a single success criterion: accuracy of the predictions returned by the algorithm. Imagine if the 'Netflix Prize' were rebranded as a Data Mining competition. The success criteria would almost certainly be expanded to more accurately access the algorithm's performance in the actual commercial setting--so for instance overall execution speed (how quickly are the recommendations delivered to the user) would probably be considered along with accuracy.

The terms "Information Retrieval" and "Data Mining" are now in mainstream use, though for a while i only saw these terms in my job description or in vendor literature (usually next to the word "solution.") At my employer, we recently hired a "Data Mining" analyst. I don't know what he does exactly, but he wears a tie to work every day. Information retrieval is about finding something that already is part of your data, as fast as possible. Machine learning are techniques to generalize existing knowledge to new data, as accurate as possible. Data mining is primarly about discovering something hidden in your data, that you did not know before, as "new" as possible. They intersect and often use techniques of one another. DM and IR both use index structures to accelerate processes. DM uses a lot of ML techniques, for example a pattern in the data set that is useful for generalization might be a new knowledge. They are often hard to separate. Do yourself a favor and don't just go for the buzzwords. In my opinion the best way of distinguishing them is by their intention, as given above: find data, generalize to new data, find new properties of existing data.