"preliminary retrieval" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the action of gathering or obtaining information from an initial search. For example, "After a preliminary retrieval of materials from the library, I was able to formulate my research question."
When compared to standard image retrieval methods, our preliminary results show that even if the feature space was reduced to only 3%5%% of the initial space, the accuracy and perceptual similarity for our system remain the same or better depending on the category of images.
Each data element consists of several features, which constitute the preliminary knowledge on which the neighbor retrieval is conducted.
Annotating phylogenetic documents using ontologies is the foundation for the use of other semantic technologies in this domain and it is a preliminary step to semantic search, information retrieval, and heterogeneous data integration that can support phylogenetic workflows.
Document retrieval and clustering often serve as preliminary steps in information extraction (IE) or text mining, two overlapping areas concerned with extracting useful knowledge from documents, such as the main features of named entities (category, roles in relation to other entities, location, dates, etc).
Retrieval occurs in batch mode, although preliminary work may be exploratory and interactive.
Although the scale of this experiment is small, overall the retrieval results are encouraging and offer preliminary support to our ideas.
> -wrap-foot> as a preliminary test of the value of our summaries in a retrieval application context, we conducted a small-scale retrieval study.
In this paper we try to improve the retrieval step for case based reasoning for preliminary design.
Strategies for knowledge annotation, knowledge retrieval, and ontology evolution are briefly described and results of preliminary performance analysis are shown.
We used a two-step approach: (1) the development of a GLAD search strategy (preliminary study); (2) the application of this strategy and the comparison of retrieval performance (main study).
Our small-scale experiments also provide encouraging, though preliminary, results supporting the benefits of using MeSH term-based summaries for information retrieval.
