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Peer reviewedNakkouzi, Ziad S.; Eastman, Caroline M. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1990
Discusses the problems caused for both users and systems by queries containing negation, and presents an algorithm for transforming Boolean queries with negated terms into queries without negation using a hierarchical thesaurus. A set of user requests submitted to an academic library are also examined to determine the pattern and frequency of use…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Algorithms, Behavior Patterns, Higher Education
