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Knowledge-based information retrieval

✍ Scribed by Ford, Nigel

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1991
Tongue: English
Weight: 302 KB
Volume: 42
Category: Article
ISSN: 0002-8231
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(199101)42:1<72::aid-asi8>3.0.co;2-9

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

I have reluctantly concluded that the fundamental basis of all the previous work [in information retrieval] is wrong . . . and any attempts to achieve further improvements [based on statistical techniques] are a waste of time.

Thus spake Van Rijsbergen (1986) in the shadow, most appropriately, of Piss's leaning tower. But if he is pessimistic about the state of the old foundations, he is hopeful for the design of future edifices. The ability of machines to deal more effectively with "meaning" may permit significant developments. The statistically based matching of keyword combinations and text fragments often governed by limited Boolean relations hardly reflects the rich semantics of query and source. However, more sophisticated knowledge representation formalisms developed within cognitive and AI

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