Inefficiency of the use of Boolean functions for information retrieval systems

Abstract

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

References

1. 1 MARON, M. E. AND KUHNS, J.L. On relevance, probabilistie indexing, and information retrieval. J. ACM 7 (1960), 216-244.

Index Terms

• Information systems

  • Information retrieval

• Theory of computation

  • Randomness, geometry and discrete structures