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Peer reviewedKoll, Mathew; Srinivasan, Padmini – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1990
Argues that, given a document and a query, users first judge the document against the individual concepts in the query and then use some inferencing process to derive a compound judgment for the entire query. The research examines the relative effectiveness of probabilistic and fuzzy models at predicting users' compound judgments. (23 references)…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Evaluative Thinking, Inferences, Models
