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Probabilistic and genetic algorithms in document retrieval

By M. Gordon
Communications of the ACM, October 1988, Vol. 31 No. 10, Pages 1208-1218
10.1145/63039.63044
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Document retrieval systems are built to provide inquirers with computerized access to relevant documents. Such systems often miss many relevant documents while falsely identifying many non-relevant documents. Here, competing document descriptions are associated with a document and altered over time by a genetic algorithm according to the queries used and relevance judgments made during retrieval.

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