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Shifting the Information Paradigm from Data-Centered to User-Centered.
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Watters, Carolyn; Shepherd, Michael A. – Information Processing and Management, 1994
Discusses the shift of information access from a data-centered to a user-centered model and describes the Daltext system, a prototype user-centered information system that allows the user to determine how the data will be viewed (i.e., within a datastream model, a set model, a relational model, and/or a hierarchical model). (Contains 30…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Data Processing, Database Design, Information Retrieval
Developing a Large Lexical Database for Information Retrieval, Parsing, and Text Generation Systems.
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Conlon, Sumali Pin-Ngern; And Others – Information Processing and Management, 1993
Important characteristics of lexical databases and their applications in information retrieval and natural language processing are explained. An ongoing project using various machine-readable sources to build a lexical database is described, and detailed designs of individual entries with examples are included. (Contains 66 references.) (EAM)
Descriptors: Business Correspondence, Database Design, Databases, Dictionaries
Exploiting Captions in Retrieval of Multimedia Data.
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Rowe, Neil C.; Guglielmo, Eugene J. – Information Processing and Management, 1993
Discusses the use of natural language processing to help organize multimedia data. The MARIE system, which uses captions to embody the classificatory information and heuristic advice necessary to search a database of photographs, is explained. Advantages include improved speed of access and the ability for improved user interaction. (Contains 21…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Captions, Database Design, Database Management Systems