Abstract
Retrieval strategies assign a measure of similarity between a query and a document. These strategies are based on the common notion that the more often terms are found in both the document and the query, the more “relevant” the document is deemed to be to the query. Some of these strategies employ counter measures to alleviate problems that occur due to the ambiguities inherent in language—the reality that the same concept can often be described with many different terms (e.g., new york and the big apple can refer to the same concept). Additionally, the same term can have numerous semantic definitions (terms like bark and duck have very different meanings in their noun and verb forms).
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Grossman, D.A., Frieder, O. (2004). Retrieval Strategies. In: Information Retrieval. The Kluwer International Series on Information Retrieval, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-3005-5_2
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