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Cormack, Gordon V.; Clarke, Charles L. A.; Palmer, Christopher R.; To, Samuel S. L. – Information Processing & Management, 2000
Describes the MultiText information retrieval system that finds arbitrary passages of text, as opposed to complete documents, that are likely to be relevant. Discusses relevance ranking, term expansion, interactive user interface, and distributed searching used in experiments for TREC-6 (Text Retrieval Conference) in the ad hoc, high precision,…
Descriptors: Chinese, Computer Interfaces, Conferences, Information Retrieval

Robertson, S. E.; Beaulieu, M. – Journal of Documentation, 1997
Reviews the development of research and evaluation in information retrieval. Highlights include the Cranfield projects concerning recall and precision, the Medlars experiment that focused on relevance, TREC (Text Retrieval Conference), evaluation versus understanding, interface versus functionality, document length, and terms and user interaction.…
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Conferences, Evaluation Methods, Information Retrieval
Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1994
Includes abstracts of 18 special interest group (SIG) sessions. Highlights include natural language processing, information science and terminology science, classification, knowledge-intensive information systems, information value and ownership issues, economics and theories of information science, information retrieval interfaces, fuzzy thinking…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Artificial Intelligence, Classification, Computer Interfaces
Maurer, Hermann, Ed.; Olson, Richard G., Ed. – 1998
This proceeding of the third WebNet conference--WebNet 98--addresses research, new developments, and experiences related to the Internet, intranets, and extranets. The 265 contributions of WebNet 98 presented in this volume consist of the full and short papers accepted for presentation at the conference from a collection of more than 600 submitted…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Interfaces, Computer Networks, Computer System Design
Yearman, Andrew R. J., Ed. – 1997
This document consists of 6 years of newsletters (eight issues) of the Industrial Training and Education Division (ITED) of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT). The ITED Newsletter maintains communication about professional matters within the Industrial Training and Education Division. This document contains…
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Conferences, Continuing Education, Distance Education
Lobodzinski, Suave, Ed.; Tomek, Ivan, Ed. – 1997
The 1997 WebNet conference addressed research, new developments, and experiences related to the Internet and intranets. The 257 contributions of WebNet 97 contained in this proceedings comprise the full and short papers accepted for presentation at the conference. Included are positions papers by leading experts in the field; descriptions of ideas…
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer Networks, Computer Security, Computer System Design