Towards an information logic
Published 1 May 1989Open access
C. J. van Rijsbergen
Citations127
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This paper argues that much of the research work in the past has been steps in the direction of a logic for IR, and presents a picture of IR, describing bits of a puzzle which may fit together to point to a new framework within which a computational model or logic could be described.
Abstract
'Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge.' (Boole, 1854)
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Computer Science
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