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In this contribution an overview of the use of OWA operators to model a soft retrieval activity in Information Retrieval Systems (IRSs) is presented. In particular some extensions of the Boolean document representation and of the Boolean query language are introduced, and a possible evolution of these approaches is outlined.
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Bordogna, G., Pasi, G. (1997). Application of OWA Operators to Soften Information Retrieval Systems. In: Yager, R.R., Kacprzyk, J. (eds) The Ordered Weighted Averaging Operators. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6123-1_21
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