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The use of logic in information retrieval modelling

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 1998

MOUNIA LALMAS  and
PETER D. BRUZA
MOUNIA LALMAS
Affiliation:
Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland
PETER D. BRUZA
Affiliation:
School of Information Systems, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane 4001, Australia
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Abstract

Information retrieval is the science concerned with the efficient and effective storage of information for the later retrieval and use by interested parties. During the last forty years, a plethora of information retrieval models and their variations have emerged. Logic-based models were launched to provide a rich and uniform representation of information and its semantics with the aim to improve information retrieval effectiveness. This approach was first advanced in 1986 by Van Rijsbergen with the so-called logical uncertainty principle. Since then, various logic-based models have been developed. This paper presents an introduction to and a survey of the use of logic for information retrieval modelling.

Type
Review Article
Information
The Knowledge Engineering Review , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , November 1998 , pp. 263 - 295
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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