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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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1990
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ410648 |
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Table of Contents:
- Query Formulation for Handling Negotiation in Information Retrieval Systems. Nakkouzi, Ziad S. Eastman, Caroline M. Academic Libraries Algorithms Behavior Patterns Higher Education Online Searching Search Strategies Thesauri Users (Information) Discusses the problems caused for both users and systems by queries containing negation, and presents an algorithm for transforming Boolean queries with negated terms into queries without negation using a hierarchical thesaurus. A set of user requests submitted to an academic library are also examined to determine the pattern and frequency of use of negation. (32 references) (CLB)