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Peer reviewedBookstein, A. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1997
Examines various kinds of uncertainty in information science. The notion of ambiguity is defined and contrasted with the more familiar notions of randomness and vagueness. Functional forms resistant to ambiguity are defined, and it is shown how to incorporate a random component, that is itself also resistant to ambiguity, into a resilient, but…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Information Retrieval, Information Science, Information Seeking
