Logic and computational complexity for boolean information retrieval

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1659-1666

  Koubarakis, Manolis ^a   Skiadopoulos, Spiros ^b   Tryfonopoulos, Christos ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PELOPONNESE   (Greece)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Boolean information retrieval; Computational complexity; Data models; Entailment; Proximity; Query languages; Satisfiability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FORMAL LOGIC; QUERY LANGUAGES;

BOOLEAN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; ENTAILMENT; PROXIMITY;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 33750809395     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2006.193     Document Type: Article

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