Annual review of information science and technology, vol. 22
Inference networks for document retrieval
SIGIR '90 Proceedings of the 13th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Information retrieval interaction
Information retrieval interaction
SIGIR '94 Proceedings of the 17th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
The impact of query structure and query expansion on retrieval performance
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Effectiveness of additional representations for the search result presentation on the web
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
A subjective logic formalisation of the principle of polyrepresentation for information needs
Proceedings of the third symposium on Information interaction in context
On the potential search effectiveness of MeSH (medical subject headings) terms
Proceedings of the third symposium on Information interaction in context
Extending term suggestion with author names
TPDL'12 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
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The principle of polyrepresentation, proposed more than 10 years ago, offers a holistic theoretical framework for handling multiple contexts in Information Retrieval (IR), and allows integration of representation and matching of both documents as well as the information seeker's information need in context. Relatively few empirically based studies have, however, applied the principle explicitly for IR purposes. This paper examines the principle of polyrepresentation, and analyses the practical implications of applying it to multiple contexts in best match IR research. It is concluded that the principle is inherently Boolean in its foundation in spite of its intentions to be applicable to both exact and best match IR. This may constitute a major obstacle for the application of the principle in main stream IR and information seeking research. A polyrepresentation continuum is proposed as an illustration of this problem, and as a model for developing the principle towards greater practical applicability.