Topics — What a work is about. Nucleation holds whatever reading the owner files here, whether or not an Anthology of the SOTA topic could also hold it; instruction for ML practice belongs to the anthology (ADR-048). The words are seeded from the clusters the reading-time triage of 2026-09-25 found, and grow by decision.
Information retrieval — finding what is relevant to a need — document and query representation, relevance and aboutness, ranking and feedback, and the geometric, probabilistic and logical models of retrieval.
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| TERM-056 | question drift: a provisional answer becoming part of the question an inquiry is pursuing, as distinct from query drift, in which the queries move away from a question that stays fixed | A21 §3’s distinction, used again at A23 VI.C. Classical retrieval names query drift (LIT-1079). An agent that rewrites its own task can drift in the question. The nucleating-argument line studies drift in concepts (CLAIM-177); this is drift in what is being asked. | Active |