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CS 6210: Module 2
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Principle of Least Effort
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Zipf’s Law (49)
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“Least Effort”
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A corollary:
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Mooer’s Law (60):
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“An information retrieval system will tend
not be used whenever it is more
troublesome for a customer to have
information than for him not to have it.”