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An algebraic approach to information retrieval systems

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This paper deals with Salton's systems of information retrieval. In his model, only the correspondence between requests and objects (documents or document descriptions) is described. The request language is treated as a partially ordered set which may have a lattice structure or even Boolean algebra structure. Those structures have influence in simplicity or retrieval methods and in mathematical pictoriality of some important properties of information systems like simplicity or selectivity. This paper investigates such problems and presents a method of designing artificial attributes and their values.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina, 28223, Charlotte, North Carolina

    Zbigniew W. Raś

  2. Institute of Math., The University of Warsaw, 00901, Warsaw, Poland

    Zbigniew W. Raś

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Raś, Z.W. An algebraic approach to information retrieval systems. International Journal of Computer and Information Sciences 11, 275–293 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00999444

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