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This paper proposes a new approach to the indexation of documents by keywords, taking into account to what extent a given keyword may and must appear in an acceptable description of a considered document. Possibility (resp. necessity) measures are used to estimate the possible (resp. certain) relevance of a document with respect to a query.
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Prade, H., Testemale, C. (1987). Application of possibility and necessity measures to documentary information retrieval. In: Bouchon, B., Yager, R.R. (eds) Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems. IPMU 1986. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 286. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-18579-8_26
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