• The (standard) Boolean model of information retrieval (BIR) is a classical information retrieval (IR) model and, at the same time, the first and most-adopted...
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    In computer science, the Boolean (sometimes shortened to Bool) is a data type that has one of two possible values (usually denoted true and false) which...
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  • In mathematics and mathematical logic, Boolean algebra is a branch of algebra. It differs from elementary algebra in two ways. First, the values of the...
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  • In logic and computer science, the Boolean satisfiability problem (sometimes called propositional satisfiability problem and abbreviated SATISFIABILITY...
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    In mathematics, a Boolean function is a function whose arguments and result assume values from a two-element set (usually {true, false}, {0,1} or {−1...
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  • Salton, Gerard; Fox, Edward A.; Wu, Harry (November 1983). "Extended Boolean information retrieval". Communications of the ACM. 26 (11): 1022–1036. doi:10...
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  • a formal language consisting of the true quantified Boolean formulas. A (fully) quantified Boolean formula is a formula in quantified propositional logic...
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    MARC standards. Boolean logic The algebraic system, developed by George Boole that is applied to Boolean expressions that contain Boolean operators such...
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  • to modern information retrieval. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-054484-0. Salton, G.; Fox, E. A.; Wu, H. (1983). "Extended Boolean information retrieval"...
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  • of the Extended Boolean model is to overcome the drawbacks of the Boolean model that has been used in information retrieval. The Boolean model doesn't consider...
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    Laws of Thought..., which lays the foundations for Boolean algebra, which is later used in information retrieval. In 1860 a congress was held at Karlsruhe...
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    Lloyd-Price; Bjorn Samuelsson & Joshua Socolar (2008). "Mutual Information in Random Boolean models of regulatory networks". Physical Review E. 77 (1): 011901...
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    "father of information theory" and the man who laid the foundations of the Information Age. Shannon was the first to describe the use of Boolean algebra—essential...
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  • single bit of information. In the formal sciences, mathematics, mathematical logic, statistics, and their applied disciplines, a Boolean-valued function...
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  • set-theoretic operations on those sets. Common models are: Standard Boolean model Extended Boolean model Fuzzy retrieval Algebraic models represent documents and...
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    George Boole (category Boolean algebra)
    contains Boolean algebra. Boolean logic, essential to computer programming, is credited with helping to lay the foundations for the Information Age. Boole...
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    sphere. While classical gates correspond to the familiar operations of Boolean logic, quantum gates are physical unitary operators. Due to the volatility...
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    A Boolean network consists of a discrete set of Boolean variables each of which has a Boolean function (possibly different for each variable) assigned...
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  • Boolean differential calculus (BDC) (German: Boolescher Differentialkalkül (BDK)) is a subject field of Boolean algebra discussing changes of Boolean...
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  • may range between completely true and completely false. By contrast, in Boolean logic, the truth values of variables may only be the integer values 0 or...
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    A logic gate is a device that performs a Boolean function, a logical operation performed on one or more binary inputs that produces a single binary output...
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  • the Cook–Levin theorem, also known as Cook's theorem, states that the Boolean satisfiability problem is NP-complete. That is, it is in NP, and any problem...
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  • In mathematics, a symmetric Boolean function is a Boolean function whose value does not depend on the order of its input bits, i.e., it depends only on...
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  • within a stored data record, such as "Title" or "Author." Boolean queries. Searches that use Boolean operators (for example, "encyclopedia" AND "online" NOT...
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    {\displaystyle N>2K} . A Boolean function in n variables can be thought of as an assignment of 0 or 1 to each vertex of a Boolean hypercube in n dimensions...
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  • are usually considered primitive in other notations (such as integers, Booleans, pairs, lists, and tagged unions) are mapped to higher-order functions...
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  • mathematics, a residuated Boolean algebra is a residuated lattice whose lattice structure is that of a Boolean algebra. Examples include Boolean algebras with the...
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  • Boolean grammars, introduced by Okhotin [Wikidata], are a class of formal grammars studied in formal language theory. They extend the basic type of grammars...
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  • engine to satisfy their information needs. Web search queries are distinctive in that they are often plain text and boolean search directives are rarely...
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  • over many queries. IR models can be broadly divided into three types: Boolean models or BIR, Vector Space Models, and Probabilistic Models. Various comparisons...
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