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Peer reviewedYoung, Charlene W.; And Others – Information Processing and Management, 1991
Describes a study conducted at the University of South Carolina that examined the frequency of occurrence of several types of errors in a sample of natural language queries submitted by users requesting online searches in information retrieval systems. Implications for system design are suggested, including parsing systems. (28 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Error Patterns, Online Searching, User Needs (Information)
