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Visual User Interfaces for Information Exploration.
Shneiderman, Ben – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1991
Discussion of human-computer interfaces focuses on the use of graphical and direct manipulation approaches to improve the user interface. Topics discussed include information seeking; computerized search capabilities, including full-text string searches, index searches, and hypertext; Boolean expressions; dynamic or direct manipulation queries;…
Descriptors: Computer Graphics, Hypermedia, Indexing, Information Retrieval
Querying a Hypertext Information Retrieval System by the Use of Classification.
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Aboud, M.; And Others – Information Processing and Management, 1993
Presents an information systems navigation approach using a combination of functionalities encountered in classification processes, Hypertext systems, and information retrieval systems. The first version of the SYRIUS system is described, with emphasis on the user's graphic interface which integrates these functionalities. (26 references) (EA)
Descriptors: Classification, Computer Graphics, Computer System Design, Hypermedia
Information Retrieval Techniques.
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Kantor, Paul B. – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 1994
Identifies current trends in the automation of indexing, of information retrieval, and of interaction between the system and the users. Topics discussed include location, navigation, and indexing; digital libraries; matching documents to queries; weight of concepts; query structure, including fuzzy sets; algorithms; stemming; clustering; users'…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Automatic Indexing, Evaluation Methods, Futures (of Society)
Subject Access in the Online Catalog.
Cochrane, Pauline A. – Research Libraries in OCLC: A Quarterly, 1982
This essay focuses on use of the Library of Congress Subject Headings system in online catalogs for the retrieval of information by subject. Among the topics addressed are differences among catalog forms (card, microform, and computer); user interface with different forms of catalog; the types of subject indexes employed in present online…
Descriptors: Design Requirements, Indexing, Information Retrieval, Library Catalogs
SLIMMER--A UNIX System-Based Information Retrieval System.
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Waldstein, Robert K. – RSR Reference Services Review, 1988
Describes an information retrieval system developed at Bell Laboratories to create and maintain a variety of different but interrelated databases, and to provide controlled access to these databases. The components discussed include the interfaces, indexing rules, display languages, response time, and updating procedures of the system. (6 notes…
Descriptors: Database Management Systems, Display Systems, Indexing, Information Retrieval
An Image Database on a Parallel Processing Network.
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Philip, G.; And Others – Information Services and Use, 1991
Describes the design and development of an image database for photographs in the Ulster Museum (Northern Ireland) that used parallelism from a transputer network. Topics addressed include image processing techniques; documentation needed for the photographs, including indexing, classifying, and cataloging; problems; hardware and software aspects;…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Classification, Computer Networks, Computer Software
Representation and Exchange of Knowledge as a Basis of Information Processes. Proceedings of the International Research Forum in Information Science (5th, Heidelberg, West Germany, September 5-7, 1983).
Dietschmann, Hans, Ed. – 1983
This 22-paper collection addresses a variety of issues related to representation and transfer of knowledge. Individual papers include an explanation of the usefulness of general scientific models versus case-specific approaches and a discussion of different empirical approaches to the general problem of knowledge representation for information…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Automatic Indexing, Cognitive Processes, Computer Oriented Programs