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Simple question, but I can't really find the answer to that: Who "invented" Boolean Retrieval? Of course, I assume that the concept grew over time, but is there a paper or publication that mentions/defines the Boolean Model as a whole for the first time?
On Wikipedia, the book by Lancaster and Fayen (1973) is cited, but I couldn't find any definition in there, either.
Looking for "Boolean Retrieval" in google scholar with upper date limit finds two papers that seems related from the sixties.
https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/juraba8&div=16&id=&page=
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD0673362.pdf
There is a reference to Non-Boolean retrieval from 1963, hinting that the term was known before. Try checking the references in these papers.
