Document Retrieval by Relevance Terminological Logics.
In Proceedings of MIRO95 Workshop, Glasgow,
Scotland, 1995.
Abstract:
Information Retrieval (IR) is presented as the task of retrieving the documents that
are relevant to a given query. In the context of a Terminological Logic (TL)
based approach to IR, this amounts to embodying a notion of relevance in the logical
implication relation of the chosen TL. Among the many possible readings of the term
``relevance'', the one captured by relevance logic, and in particular by first-order
tautological entailment, can be viewed as a promising source of inspiration, to the
end of incorporating a logic-based form of relevance in the inference mechanism of
TLs. The aim of this paper is to present a Relevant Terminological Logic,
while maintaining the desired ``relevance'' flavour of relevance logics, which could
be considered as a base towards a suitable document description logic for IR purposes.