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Cooper, William S. – Information Processing and Management, 1988
Describes several problems encountered when using the Boolean model of information retrieval, and for each problem offers a nontraditional design principle that overcomes the difficulty. The problems discussed are the unfriendliness of Boolean formulas, null output and output overload, undifferentiated facets, interpreting weights, and term…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Information Retrieval, Online Searching, Performance Factors