Inefficiency of the use of Boolean functions for information retrieval systems

  • Authors:
  • J. Verhoeff;W. Goffman;Jack Belzer

  • Affiliations:
  • Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH;Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH;Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1961

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Abstract

In this note we attempt to point out why boolean functions are, in general, not applicable in information retrieval systems.