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The paper outlines the principles underlying the theory of polyrepresentation applied to the user’s cognitive space and the information space of IR systems, set in a cognitive framework. By means of polyrepresentation it is suggested to represent the current user’s information need, problem state, and domain work task or interest in a structure of causality as well as to embody semantic full-text entities by means of the principle of ‘intentional redundancy’. hi IR systems this principle implies simultaneously to apply different methods of representation and a variety of IR techniques of different cognitive origin to each entity. The objective is to aproximate as close as possible text retrieval to retrieval of information in a cognitive sense.
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Ingwersen, P. (1994). Polyrepresentation of Information Needs and Semantic Entities Elements of a Cognitive Theory for Information Retrieval Interaction. In: Croft, B.W., van Rijsbergen, C.J. (eds) SIGIR ’94. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2099-5_11
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