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COLLAGE is a collection of processes and methods which carry out automatic analysis of topics in a natural language form. The results of this analysis are used to determine which NLP resources should be applied to converting each part of a topic into a set of Boolean queries, and how the document lists resulting from the application of each query should be combined to give a final list of ranked documents.
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Cowie, J. (1999). COLLAGE: An NLP Toolset to Support Boolean Retrieval. In: Strzalkowski, T. (eds) Natural Language Information Retrieval. Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2388-6_11
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