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Investigating Aboutness Axioms using Information Fields

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This article proposes a framework, a so called information field, which allows information retrieval mechanisms to be compared inductively instead of experimentally. Such a comparison occurs as follows: Both retrieval mechanisms are first mapped to an associated information field. Within the field, the axioms that drive the retrieval process can be filtered out. Tn this way, the implicit assumptions governing an information retrieval mechanism can be brought to light. The retrieval mechanisms can then be compared according to which axioms they are governed by. Using this method it is shown that Boolean retrieval is more powerful than a strict form of coordinate retrieval. The salient point is not this result in itself, but how the result was achieved.

This work was performed while at Utrecht University

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  1. School of Information Systems, Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box 2134, Brisbane, Q 4001, Australia

    P. D. Bruza

  2. Department of Computer Science, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    T. W. C. Huibers

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, 01003, Amherst, MA, USA

    Bruce W. Croft

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Glasgow, G12 8RZ, 8–17 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow, Scotland

    C. J. van Rijsbergen

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Bruza, P.D., Huibers, T.W.C. (1994). Investigating Aboutness Axioms using Information Fields. In: Croft, B.W., van Rijsbergen, C.J. (eds) SIGIR ’94. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2099-5_12

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