Extended boolean retrieval: a heuristic approach?

  • Authors:
  • R. Rousseau

  • Affiliations:
  • Speciale Licentie Documentatie- en Bibliotheekwetenschap, UIA, Universiteitsplein 1, B-2610 Wilrijk, Belgium and Katholieke Industriële Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen Zeedijk 101, B-8400 Oostende ...

  • Venue:
  • SIGIR '90 Proceedings of the 13th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

We show that the similarity measures for p-norm retrieval, as defined by Salton, Fox and Wu have some undesirable mathematical properties. We propose a new function that remedies some of these drawbacks. Still, even for this new similarity measure the extended Boolean model has some properties which can only be described as 'heuristic'.