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Peer reviewedCole, Charles; Mandelblatt, Bertie – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 2000
Uses Kintsch's proposition-based construction-integration theory of discourse comprehension to detail the user coding operations that occur in each of the three subsystems (Perception, Comprehension, Application) in which users process an information retrieval systems (IRS) message. Describes an IRS device made up of two separate parts that enable…
Descriptors: Coding, Comprehension, Information Processing, Information Retrieval
Cole, Charles; Leide, John E.; Nwakamma, Emeka; Beheshti, Jamshid; Large, Andrew – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2003
Presents preliminary results from a study of an information need identification system for interactive information retrieval for undergraduates researching a history topic. Concludes that the query taxonomy must include levels of topic specificity because while general topic-based queries are inappropriate as query terms, more specific topic-based…
Descriptors: Databases, Higher Education, History, Information Processing
