From the book an introduction to information retrieval How should the Boolean query x OR NOT y be handled? Why is the naive evaluation of this query normally very expensive? Write out a postings merge algorithm that evaluates this query efficiently.
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The Boolean query x OR NOT y means that we are looking for documents that contain the term x or do not contain the term y. Show more…
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