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A look back and a look forward
This paper is in two parts, following the suggestion that I first comment on my own past experience in information retrieval, and then present my views on the present and future.
Experiments on incorporating syntactic processing of user queries into a document retrieval strategy
Traditional information has relied on the extensive use of statistical parameters in the implementation of retrieval strategies. This paper sets out to investigate whether linguistic processes can be used as part of a document retrieval strategy. This ...
The use of anaphoric resolution for document description in information retrieval
This study investigated two hypotheses concerning the use of anaphors in information retrieval. The first hypothesis, that anaphors tend to refer to integral concepts rather than to peripheral concepts, was well supported. Two samples of documents, one ...
Natural language techniques for intelligent information retrieval
Neither natural language processing nor information retrieval is any longer a young field, but the two areas have yet to achieve a graceful interaction. Mainly, the reason for this incompatibility is that information retrieval technology depends upon ...
Correction of phonographic errors in natural language interfaces
In this paper, we point out that, in applications available to the general public, and/or natural language interfaces, the correction of phonographic errors (which are competence errors) is far more important than the correction of typographical errors (...
Precedental data bases: how and why they are worked out and used
The concept of a “precedental data base” is introduced. It is a linguistic data base consisting of a dictionary of lexical patterns (clishes) and a dictionary of discourses. Some algorithms for textual information processing using precedental data bases ...
How do the experts do it? The use of ethnographic methods as an aid to understanding the cognitive processing and retrieval of large bodies of text
This paper explores an important problem in information retrieval: that of rapidly increasing amounts of full-text storage that is difficult to file and retrieve effectively. The author suggests that a possible avenue for improving full-text retrieval ...
On the nature and fuction of explanation in intelligent information retrieval
We discuss the complexity of explanation activity in human-human goal-directed dialogue, and suggest that this complexity ought to be taken account of in the design of explanation in human-computer interaction. We propose a general model of clarity in ...
On the use of spreading activation methods in automatic information
Spreading activation methods have been recommended in information retrieval to expand the search vocabulary and to complement the retrieved document sets. The spreading activation strategy is reminiscent of earlier associative indexing and retrieval ...
Knowledge representation, connectionism and conceptual retrieval
Knowledge Representation (KR) systems provide support for Artificial Intelligence systems that reason about relationships between objects in their domains of expertise. Because of their support for inference, KR systems appear to have potential to ...
BABEL: a base for an experimental library
This report discusses the implementation of a knowledge base for a library information system. It is done using a typed logic programming language—LOGIN—where type inheritance is built in. The knowledge base is structured in a hierarchical taxonomy of ...
ALLOY: an amalgamation of expert, linguistic and statistical indexing methods
In this paper we report progress on the development of ALLOY, a system that simplifies automatic document indexing and retrieval by combining techniques from several different approaches: expert, linguistic and statistical. The system is being designed ...
Two learning schemes in information retrieval
Two methods are given to improve weighting schemes by using relevance information of a set of queries. The first method is to estimate parameter values of two independence models in information retrieval — the binary independence model and the non-...
Linear structure in information retrieval
Based on the concept of user preference, we investigate the linear structure in information retrieval. We also discuss a practical procedure to determine the linear decision function and present an analysis of term weighting. Our experimental results ...
Information retrieval using impression of documents as a clue
Proposed here is an internal representation and mapping method for multimedia information in which retrieval is based on the impression documents are desired to make. A user interface design for a system using this method is also proposed.
The proposed ...
A utility-theoretic analysis of expected search length
In this paper the expected search length, which is a measure of retrieval system performance, is investigated from the viewpoint of axiomatic utility theory. Necessary and sufficient criteria for the expected search length to be an ordinal scale and ...
Optimum probability estimation based on expectations
Probability estimation is important for the application of probabilistic models as well as for any evaluation in IR. We discuss the interdependencies between parameter estimation and other properties of probabilistic models. Then we define an optimum ...
Concept based retrieval in classical IR systems
This paper describes some aspects of a project with the aim of developing a user-friendly interface to a classical Information Retrieval (IR) System in order to improve the effectiveness of retrieval. The character by character approach to IR has been ...
Coefficients of combining concept classes in a collection
This report considers combining information to improve retrieval. The vector space model has been extended so different classes of data are associated with distinct concept types and their respective subvectors. Two collections with multiple concept ...
A cluster-based approach to thesaurus construction
The importance of a thesaurus in the successful operation of an information retrieval system is well recognized. Yet techniques which support the automatic generation of thesauri remain largely undiscovered. This paper describes one approach to the ...
Towards interactive query expansion
In an era of online retrieval, it is appropriate to offer guidance to users wishing to improve their initial queries. One form of such guidance could be short lists of suggested terms gathered from feedback, nearest neighbors, and term variants of ...
The automatic indexing system AIR/PHYS - from research to applications
Since October 1985, the automatic indexing system AIR/PHYS has been used in the input production of the physics data base of the Fachinformationsentrum Karlsruhe/West Germany. The texts to be indexed are abstracts written in English. The system of ...
Retrieval based on user behaviour
This paper gives an overview of the ongoing research in the Active Data Bases project at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. In this project we are specifying and building a system that helps a user in his search for useful and interesting information in ...
Query processing in a heterogeneous retrieval network
The concept of a large-scale information retrieval network incorporating heterogeneous retrieval systems and users is introduced, and the necessary components for enabling term-based searching of any database by untrained end-users are outlined. We ...
Some measures and procedures for evaluation of the user interface in an information retrieval system
Planning the evaluation of an information retrieval system involves two steps: first, a determination of performance descriptors and measures appropriate to the system objectives and, secondly, a development of an evaluation design which ensures the ...
IR-NLI II: applying man-machine interaction and artificial intelligence conceptsto information retrieval
This paper addresses the problem of building expert interfaces to information retrieval systems. In particular, the problem of augmenting the capabilities of such interfaces with user modeling features is discussed and the main benefits of this approach ...
Intelligent support for interface systems
This paper describes how a language for building interfaces to information systems, that is being developed by the Office of Research at OCLC, can be linked to an artificial intelligence environment, Poplog. A demonstration system, showing how Poplog ...
A parallel multiprocessor machine dedicated to relational and deductive data bases
Efficiency in databases is a major requirement. This paper presents some solutions to cope with this problem. One solution is to execute operations in parallel: this is done in the “Delta Driven Computer” DDC, which is a multiprocessor machine with ...
Flexible selection among objects: a framework based on fuzzy sets
Up to now, most of the retrieving systems are founded on a Boolean selection mechanism. It appears that this way of doing is not powerful enough to deal with some applications, especially when the size (number) of the results must be controlled. In that ...
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- Proceedings of the 11th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval