The Use of Extended Boolean Logic in Information Retrieval

Summary: Introduces an extended Boolean retrieval framework where query operators vary in strictness by term-term association strength. Demonstrations and empirical evaluation show improved retrieval effectiveness versus traditional Boolean models. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2316
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1984
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 14,536 | 0.62%
DOI: 10.1145/602259.602295

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1. Gerard Salton (Cornell University)

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@inproceedings{salton_sigmod84,
        title = {{The Use of Extended Boolean Logic in Information Retrieval}},
        author = {Salton, Gerard},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '84},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/602259.602295},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/602259.602295},
        year = {1984}
}

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