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The Concept of Information in Ordinary Discourse.
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Derr, Richard L. – Information Processing and Management, 1985
The concept of information as it is used in ordinary discourse is elucidated, using philosophical methods of conceptual analysis. Five essential and four derivative properties of the phenomena of information are identified. This information concept is contrasted with several proposed concepts in information theory literature, communication theory,…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Discourse Analysis, Hypothesis Testing, Information Science
A Text Knowledge Base from the AI Handbook.
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Simmons, Robert F. – Information Processing and Management, 1987
Describes a prototype natural language text knowledge system (TKS) that was used to organize 50 pages of a handbook on artificial intelligence as an inferential knowledge base with natural language query and command capabilities. Representation of text, database navigation, query systems, discourse structuring, and future research needs are…
Descriptors: Database Management Systems, Databases, Discourse Analysis, Expert Systems