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Book review: Language and Representation in Information Retrieval by D.C. Blair. Elsevier Science Publishers 1990

One of the remarkable things about the book Language and Representation in Information Retrieval is the large number of references to philosophers. Wittgenstein is quoted at the beginning of each chapter and there are also references to Hegel, Heiddegger and even to Nietsche. This naturally raises the question as to what these philosophers have to do with Information Retrieval. The answer is that the author considers several issues through the premises of a particular philosophy.