false drop

[¦fȯls ′dräp]

(computer science)

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When your search is first displayed, it is surrounded by related terms, so there is much less chance of a false drop as with the East of Eden example.

Google's custom search: where did it go?

false drop: A term that refers to search results that are not relevant to the user's query.

Words at work

In reference [18] reached 85.5% pass rate with 91 false drops, but we can find that the performance of our method is much better than Schneiderman's method; it can reach a high detection rate with less false drop.

A novel multi-view face detection method based on improved real Adaboost algorithm

The drop that actually matches the Sq is called an actual drop and drop that fails the test is called false drop. The next step in the query processing is the false drop resolution.

Applying SD-tree for object-oriented query processing

The equations used to calculate the signature weight and width are obtained so that the false drop probability is minimized and are proved in Roberts [1979] and Davis and Kamamohanarao [1983].

Efficient Content-Based Indexing of Large Image Databases

When we look through the list of documents or sites returned from a search engine there are always a few errors, called "false drops." When we can work out to our satisfaction how the false drop occurred (perhaps a misspelled word), then we feel we can trust the search engine.

Buying the proper search solution for your intranet. (Behind The Firewall)

Using PLSA, the company says MindServer Retrieval has the capability to "understand" the context of search terms utilizing machine learning technology, which results in far fewer incorrect results or false drops.

Recommind: recommending information management

The inclusion in the database of a good selection of items in full text greatly expands the access to Peel materials (with an attendant expansion of frustration due to "false drops," but an even greater expansion of serendipitous finds).

Ernie B. Ingles and N. Merrill Distad, editors and compilers. Peel's Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies to 1953

Better retrieval can be achieved because of the semantic values attached to the terms; this would help reduce the false drops. Document surrogates can be prepared automatically according to the prescribed rules of the concerned indexing system--e.g., according to the principle of generating the index entries in PRECIS (Austin & Dykstra, 1984).

Template Mining for Information Extraction from Digital Documents

Controlled terms that are tailored to a corpus minimize false drops. The ability to perform date limiting eliminates the results list that mixes old and new content indiscriminately.

Data fusion, discovery, and the next big thing in research

In xrefer you may also find false drops that are unavoidable, especially in single-word searches, such as those results that list people whose first, middle, or last name is Hercules, not to mention the C-130 Hercules military airplane.

Xrefer: An Xcellent British Dot-Com

In contrast with results from general Web search engines and even Yahoo!, the leading Web directory service, searching on LookSmart seems to retrieve few or no false drops. The company clearly has a commitment to "bull's-eye" searching.