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Peer reviewedHaverkamp, Donna S.; Gauch, Susan – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1998
Discusses intelligent user interfaces, through which a user may query for information; explains the different types of intelligent online search assistants, or agents, which are used to support these interfaces. Describes several different agent systems. Concludes by discussing the current state of agents in information retrieval, especially as…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Interfaces, Information Retrieval, Information Sources
Wiley, Deborah Lynne – Searcher, 1998
Reviews the Institute for Scientific Information's (ISI) Web interface for its Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science Citation Expanded citation indexes. Discusses content; other Internet efforts from ISI; pricing; searching; quick and full search modes; using the results; document delivery; full text; documentation and help; and future…
Descriptors: Citations (References), Computer Interfaces, Costs, Document Delivery
Peer reviewedPoincot, Philippe; Lesteven, Soizick; Murtagh, Fionn – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 2000
Discusses the implementation of a cartographic user interface to bibliographic and other information sub-spaces in astronomy. Presents a range of comparative assessments, in operational frameworks, of this approach to accessing and retrieving astronomical information. Discusses the particular role that such cartographic user interfaces can play in…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Astronomy, Cartography, Comparative Analysis
Powell, James; Fox, Edward A. – D-Lib Magazine, 1998
Describes a scalable system for searching heterogeneous multilingual collections on the World Wide Web. Details Searchable Database Markup Language (SearchDB-ML) for describing the characteristics of a search engine and its interface, and a protocol for requesting word translations between languages. (Author)
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer System Design, Information Seeking
