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Chapter 8: Semantics and Syntactics for Retrieval from Full Text
This chapter focuses on bringing semantics and syntactics back to the
examples of retrieval given in chapter 5 and then
testing and demonstrat-
ing their analytic advantages. A fuller example of retrieval is also intro-
duced and considered from the developed perspective.
Chapter 9: Conclusion
The conclusion explores the implications of semantics and syntactics
developed for preexisting theories of information retrieval, for the labor
theoretic approach, and for the practical evolution of Internet search
engines.
Postscript
The postscript addresses the changes in what it means to be human that
arise from current developments in information retrieval.
A diagram conirms the structure of the topic, indicating the topics cov-
ered by each chapter in relation to the categories of the labor theoretic
approach developed and adopted (see table 1.1). The absence of a cat-
egory does not mean that the category has been discarded in later chap-
ters, but rather that it either continues to be incorporated into the theory
developed without further significant modification, or that it is no longer
highly significant in real world practice or has been analytically excluded
to enable clarity of attention. For instance, selection power is incorpo-
rated into the further theory developed, while semantic description labor
and syntactic search labor have diminished in real world practice for
retrieval from full text. Accordingly, both are analytically excluded from
the later chapters. The diagram offers a guide for placing individual chap-
ters within the overall argument.
