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Multimedia Document Management: An Anthropocentric Approach.
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Bianchi, Nadia; And Others – Information Processing & Management, 1996
Describes the architecture of an anthropocentric Biomedical Information Management System prototype that is based on a network of computational components, or agents, that expert biomedical users can define, use, and refine to serve their own communication and documentation habits and needs. The innovation of the proposal, the Participatory Design…
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Computer System Design, Information Management, Information Systems
Automatic Text Decomposition and Structuring.
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Salton, Gerard; And Others – Information Processing & Management, 1996
Text similarity measurements are used to determine relationships between natural-language texts and text excerpts. The resulting linked hypertext maps can be broken down into text segments and themes used to identify different text types and structures, leading to improved information access and utilization. Examples are provided for text…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Automation, Hypermedia, Information Processing
Toward a Reconceptualization of Information Seeking Research: Focus on the Exchange of Meaning.
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Yoon, Kyunghye; Nilan, Michael S. – Information Processing & Management, 1999
The paper reports the results of a preliminary study of interpersonal information seeking (IS) interactions between a user and a human information source. Study showed that users specify their information needs (uncertainty) largely in terms of what they know (certainty) during the interaction. (Author)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Information Seeking, Information Systems, Information Utilization