• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.79-95
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• 1990

A retrieval technique was defined as a technique for comparing the document representations. So this study classified retrieval technique in terms of the charactristics of the retrieved set of documents and the representations that are used. The distinction is whether the set of retrieved documents contains only documents whose representations are an exact match with the query, or a partial match with query. For a partial match, the set of retrieved document will include also those that are an exact match with the query. Boolean-logic as one of the exact match retrieval techniques is in current in most of the large operational information retrieval systems despite of its problems and limitatlons. Partial match as an alternative technique has also various problems. Existing information retrieval systems are successful in aSSisting the user whose needs are well- defined (e.g. Boolean-logic), to retrieve relevant documents but it should be successful in providing retrieval assistance to the browser whose information requirements is ill-defined.