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Information Retrieval and the Philosophy of Language

Author(s) -

David C. Blair

Publication year - 1992

Publication title -

the computer journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.319

H-Index - 64

eISSN - 1460-2067

pISSN - 0010-4620

DOI - 10.1093/comjnl/35.3.200

Subject(s) - relevance (law) , grice , computer science , natural language , representation (politics) , information retrieval , philosophy of language , natural language processing , linguistics , natural (archaeology) , artificial intelligence , epistemology , philosophy , pragmatics , history , metaphysics , archaeology , politics , political science , law

This discussion takes the position that information retrieval systems are fundamentally linguistic in nature - in essence, the languages of document representation and searching are dialects of natural language. Because of this, the discipline of the Philosophy of Language should have some bearing on the problems of document representation and search query formulation. The philosophies of Austin, Searle, Grice and Wittgenstein are briefly examined and their relevance to information retrieval theory is discussed

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