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Lancaster, F. Wilfrid; Warner, Amy J. – 1993
The emphasis of this text is that the problems of information retrieval are the intellectual ones of subject analysis and description. These problems are not easily solved by technology alone, although certain inroads are being made by knowledge-based expert systems and other computer aids to indexing. Linguistic approaches are also showing…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Automatic Indexing, Cost Effectiveness, Database Producers
Download full textDivilbiss, J. L., Ed. – 1981
Eight studies by experts in the field of information retrieval examine aspects of public use of such automated systems as online catalogs in libraries. Ward Shaw discusses "Design Principles for Public Access," outlining desirable characteristics of an information retrieval system. Allen Avner and H. George Friedman, Jr. treat problems…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Consumer Economics, Disabilities, Information Retrieval
