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Peer reviewedCormack, 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
Hansen, Per Hofman – Computers in Libraries, 2002
Describes MusiCat, an experimental user interface designed in Denmark that reflects the different ways that patrons think when searching for musical material on the Web. Discusses technology versus content; search trees that use a hierarchy of subject terms; and usability testing. (LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Foreign Countries, Library Services, Music
Peer reviewedKline, Vickie – Online Information Review, 2002
Examines a selection of innovative search tools that attempt to solve specific problems in searching. Topics include search difficulties, including controlled vocabularies and keyword searching; retrieval issues, including relevancy ranking; document discrimination problems; creating search tools for specific audiences; and interface design,…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Computer Interfaces, Concept Mapping, Information Retrieval
Peer reviewedShiri, Ali Asghar; Revie, Crawford; Chowdhury, Gobinda – Journal of Information Science, 2002
Discussion of user interfaces to information retrieval systems focuses on interfaces that incorporate thesauri as part of their searching and browsing facilities. Discusses research literature related to information searching behavior, information retrieval interface evaluation, search term selection, and query expansion; and compares thesaurus…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Interfaces, Databases, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedLucas, Wendy; Topi, Heikki – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2002
Describes a study of college students that investigated Web-based search engine queries and compared relevancy ratings with expert-formulated queries. Considers the number of subject terms used and the use of Boolean operators and discuses the need for designing search engine interfaces that provide greater support in term selection and operator…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Computer Interfaces, Design Requirements
Download full textKhoo, Christopher S. G.; Poo, Danny C. C.; Toh, Teck-Kang; Hong, Glenn – 1999
E-Referencer is an expert intermediary system for searching library online public access catalogs (OPACs) on the World Wide Web. It is implemented as a proxy server that mediates the interaction between the user and Boolean OPACs. It transforms a Boolean OPAC into a retrieval system with many of the search capabilities of Web search engines.…
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer Software Development, Computer System Design, Expert Systems
Peer reviewedDiaz, Karen R. – RQ, 1997
Describes a study conducted at Ohio State University libraries that gauged success using the Library Resources Network by having 43 users complete an exercise that forced them to make database selections, use a variety of database interfaces, and select appropriate terminology. Sample screen displays and the questionnaire used are appended.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Interfaces, Computer Networks, Databases
