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Retrieval models in on-line documentary information systems: An analytic review

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Translated from Kibernetika, No. 2, pp. 102–118, March–April, 1981.

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Driyanskii, V.M. Retrieval models in on-line documentary information systems: An analytic review. Cybern Syst Anal 17, 269–287 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01069646

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