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As larger and more heterogeneous text databases become available, information retrieval research will depend on the development of powerful, efficient and flexible retrieval engines. In this paper, we describe a retrieval system (INQUERY) that is based on a probabilistic retrieval model and provides support for sophisticated indexing and complex query formulation. INQUERY has been used successfully with databases containing nearly 400,000 documents.
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Callan, J.P., Croft, W.B., Harding, S.M. (1992). The INQUERY Retrieval System. In: Tjoa, A., Ramos, I. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-7557-6_14
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