Orthography as a fundamental impediment to online information retrieval
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Orthography as a Fundamental Impediment to Online Information Retrieval
Orthography is the linguistic study of written language: elements of text such as letters, punctuation marks and spelling. Information retrieval systems operate in the orthographic realm matching some text strings (i.e., index entries) from documents with other text strings (i.e., query terms) from patrons. During the early history of information retrieval, it has been convenient to assume the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Society for Information Science
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0002-8231,1097-4571
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(199806)49:8<731::aid-asi7>3.0.co;2-o