Book review of Wittgenstein, language and information: "Back to the rough ground!" by David Blair

Blair, D. (1990), Language and Representation in Information Retrieval, Elsevier, Amsterdam.

Blair, D. (2003), “Information retrieval and the philosophy of language”, Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Vol. 37, pp. 3-50.

Blair, D.C. (2005), “Wittgenstein, language and information: ‘Back to the rough ground!’‘”, in Crestani, F. and Ruthven, I. (Eds), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, V3507, CoLIS 2005, LNCS 3507, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 1-4.

Blair, D.C. and Kimbrough, S.O. (2002), “Exemplary documents: a foundation for information retrieval design”, Information Processing and Management, Vol. 38 No. 3, pp. 363-79.

Bloor, D. (1999), “Wittgenstein's behaviorism”, in O'Donohue, W. and Kitchener, R. (Eds), Handbook of Behaviorism, Academic Press, San Diego, CA, pp. 329-60.

Hanna, P. and Harrison, B. (2003), Word and World: Practice and the Foundations of Language, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Hjørland, B. (1998), “Information retrieval, text composition, and semantics”, Knowledge Organization, Vol. 25 Nos 1/2, pp. 16-31, available at: www.db.dk/bh/publikationer/Filer/ir_semant_2.pdf.

Sutcliffe, J.P. (1993), “Concept, class, and category in the tradition of Aristotle”, in van Mechelen, I., Hampton, J., Michalski, R.S. and Theuns, P. (Eds), Categories and Concepts, Academic Press, London, pp. 35-65.