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Peer reviewedVan der Vet, Paul E.; Mars, Nicolaas J. I. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1999
Coordinated index concepts are compound-index concepts that express a relationship between concepts that function as simple subject descriptors. The Condorcet Query Engine, a prototype query engine that can be run over the World Wide Web, demonstrates the feasibility of a query engine that can handle both simple and coordinated index concepts,…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Indexes, Information Retrieval, Online Searching
Peer reviewedOakes, Michael P.; Taylor, Malcolm J. – Information Processing & Management, 1998
Reports on the design of an automated query system to help pharmacologists access the Derwent Drug File (DDF). Topics include knowledge types; knowledge representation; role of the search intermediary; vocabulary selection, thesaurus, and user input in natural language; browsing; evaluation methods; and search statement generation for the World…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Computer System Design, Evaluation Methods, Knowledge Representation
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
