Fuzzy Requests: An Approach to Weighted Boolean Searches.

Bookstein, Abraham

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Fuzzy Requests: An Approach to Weighted Boolean Searches.

Bookstein, Abraham

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v31 n4 p240-47 Jul 1980

Discusses the problem of how to permit a patron to represent the relative importance of various index terms in a Boolean request while retaining the desirable properties of a Boolean system. (FM)

Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Online Systems, Problems, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Search Strategies, Subject Index Terms

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Language: English

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