On the role of logic in information retrieval (1998)
| Venue: | Information Processing and Management |
| Citations: | 31 - 4 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Sebastiani98onthe,
author = {Fabrizio Sebastiani},
title = {On the role of logic in information retrieval},
booktitle = {Information Processing and Management},
year = {1998},
pages = {1--18}
}
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Abstract
What is that makes a “good ” logical model of IR? What are the guidelines that we should follow when we want to build one, and how much can we depart from these guidelines and still claim to have a logical model of IR? We have been motivated to write this note from our dissatisfaction with the fact that there seem to be many competing, incompatible views of what a logical model of IR should consist of; we think some of these views are misleading. 1 Information Retrieval and modelling In recent years, researchers in Information Retrieval (IR) have devoted an increasing amount of work to the design of models of IR, i.e. of theoretical descriptions of the IR task that could serve both as specifications for building running systems, and as theoretical tools for abstractly investigating the relative effectiveness of systems built along their guidelines. Modelling is fundamentally an activity of abstraction. A model is a description of a system that concentrates on the most important, architectural features of the system, and leaves out details that are believed not to be
