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This is a brief account of some of the formal models underlying recent research in information retrieval. In particular I discuss the central role that uncertain implication plays in viewing retrieval as a form of inference. There is some hope that a paradigm borrowed from quantum mechanics may lead to a unified model, that is, a framework within which the different formal models can be expressed.
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van Rijsbergen, C.J. (1995). Information retrieval and informative reasoning. In: van Leeuwen, J. (eds) Computer Science Today. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1000. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0015266
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