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Negations and document length in logical retrieval

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Negations and document length in logical retrieval
Abstract. Terms which are not explicitly mentioned in the text of a document receive often a minor role in current retrieval systems. In this work we connect the management of such terms with the ability of the retrieval model to handle partial representations. A simple logical indexing process capable of expressing negated terms and omitting some other terms in the representation of a document was designed. Partial representations of documents can be built taking into account document length and global term distribution. A propositional model of information retrieval is used to exemplify the advantages from such expressive modeling. A number of experiments applying these partial representations are reported. The benefits of the expressive framework became apparent in the evaluation.
David E. Losada, Alvaro Barreiro
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Type Journal
Year 2006
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Authors David E. Losada, Alvaro Barreiro
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