Information Retrieval: Uncertainty and Logics
Rijsbergen, Cornelis Joost van / Lalmas, Mounia / Crestani, Fabio
In recent years, there have been several attempts to define a logic for information retrieval (IR). The aim was to provide a rich and uniform representation of information and its semantics with the goal of improving retrieval effectiveness. The basis of a logical model for IR is the assumption that queries and documents can be represented effectively by logical formulae. To retrieve a document, an IR system has to infer the formula representi...
