Back when people-facing computer stuff worked more like computer-facing computer stuff, queries were simple: keywords to match. If you get too many results, add more keywords; if you get too few, remove* keywords (or change existing keywords to be more specific/more general respectively).
If you're not searching for literal occurrences of "what" and "is", why should they even be in a query?
* this is an instance of an adjunction, which is an important concept in informatics, but I understand that to actually admit the fact would probably be the kiss of death for anything claiming to be a "user" interface.
If you're not searching for literal occurrences of "what" and "is", why should they even be in a query?
* this is an instance of an adjunction, which is an important concept in informatics, but I understand that to actually admit the fact would probably be the kiss of death for anything claiming to be a "user" interface.
Lagniappe: marginalia, upon being queried with "precision" and "recall", came up inter alia with http://comonad.com/reader/2009/remodeling-precision/ , which I count as a win for it.