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work_nk3liutbn5exrjjd6j54zdcnn4	Shimon Schocken	On the use of the Dempster Shafer model in information indexing and retrieval applications	1993	59	.pdf	application/pdf	16498	1444	68	Keywords: Theory of evidence, Dempster Shafer model, relevance measures, information For information indexing and retrieval systems, the DS model can be used as a relevance calculus, designed t o quantify and In information indexing and retrieval applications, the frame of discernment is normally taken t o be a keywords lexicon K: = {kl,. This particular function represents a cataloger who strongly believes that the document is relevant to represent relevance numbers, then one should combine them using Dempster's rule, because that's how mass functions are combined in the DS model." This argument could have his belief in the document's relevance to a lexical subset X, the same evidence should not For example, consider the following set of classes, taken from an art-related taxonomy: C = {~rt , Braque, Cubism, Dada, the canonical indexing model, the opinions are combined at the catalogers level, through 	./cache/work_nk3liutbn5exrjjd6j54zdcnn4.pdf	./txt/work_nk3liutbn5exrjjd6j54zdcnn4.txt