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What problems and concerns are there in making up descriptive titles?
What difficulties are involved in automatically retrieving articles from
approximate titles?
What is the usual relevance of the content of articles to their titles?
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How can actually pertinent data, as opposed to references or entire articles
themselves, be retrieved automatically in response to information requests?
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What is information science?  Give definitions where possible.
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Image recognition and any other methods of automatically
transforming printed text into computer-ready form.
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What special training will ordinary researchers and businessmen need for proper
information management and unobstructed use of information retrieval systems?
What problems are they likely to encounter?
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What possibilities are there for verbal communication between computers and
humans, that is, communication via the spoken word?
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Describe presently working and planned systems for publishing and printing
original papers by computer, and then saving the byproduct, articles coded in
data-processing form, for further use in retrieval.
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Describe information retrieval and indexing in other languages.
What bearing does it have on the science in general?
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What possibilities are there for automatic grammatical and contextual analysis
of articles for inclusion in an information retrieval system?
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The use of abstract mathematics in information retrieval, e.g. group theory.
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What is the need for information consolidation, evaluation, and retrieval in
scientific research?
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Give methods for high speed publication, printing, and distribution of
scientific journals.
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What criteria have been developed for the objective evaluation of information
retrieval and dissemination systems?
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What future is there for automatic medical diagnosis?
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How much do information retrieval and dissemination systems, as well as
automated libraries, cost?
Are they worth it to the researcher and to industry?
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What systems incorporate multiprogramming or remote stations in information
retrieval?  What will be the extent of their use in the future?
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Means of obtaining large volume, high speed, customer usable
information retrieval output.
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What methods are there for encoding, automatically matching,
and automatically drawing structures extended in two dimensions,
like the structural formulas for chemical compounds?
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Techniques of machine matching and machine searching systems.
Coding and matching methods.
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Testing automated information systems.
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The need to provide personnel for the information field.
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Automated information in the medical field.
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Amount of use of books in libraries.
Relation to need for automated information systems .
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Educational and training requirements for personnel in the information field.
Possibilities for this training.  Needs for programs providing this training.
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International systems for exchange and dissemination of information.
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Cost and determination of cost associated with systems of automated information.
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Computerized information retrieval systems.  Computerized indexing systems.
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Computerized information systems in fields related to chemistry.
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Specific advantages of computerized index systems.
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Information dissemination by journals and periodicals.
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Information systems in the physical sciences.
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Attempts at computerized and mechanized systems for general libraries.
Problems and methods of automated general author and title indexing systems.
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Retrieval systems which provide for the automated transmission of information
to the user from a distance.
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Methods of coding used in computerized index systems.
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Government supported agencies and projects dealing with information dissemination.
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What are some of the theories and practices in computer translating of
texts from one national language to another?  How can machine translating
compete with traditional methods of translating in comprehending nuances
of meaning in languages of different structures?

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What lists of words useful for indexing or classifying material are
available?  Wanted are lists of terms that are descriptive vocabularies
of particular fields or schedules of words that are related to each other
in meaningful schemes.  Wanted are lists that have been tested, at least to
some extent, and found useful for organizing material and for retrieving it.

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How can access words in an information retrieval system be kept up to date?
Word meanings and usage often change and lists must be dynamic to be current.
What definitions of the problem and progress toward solutions have been made
in providing necessary flexibility in systems of subject headings, index
words, or other symbols used for getting at stored data?

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The progress of information retrieval presents problems of maladjustment
and dislocation of personnel.  Training and retraining of people to use
the new equipment is important at all levels.  Librarians, assistants,
technicians, students, researchers, and even executives will need education
to learn the purpose, values, and uses of information systems and hardware.
What programs have been developed to change the attitudes and skills of
traditional workers and help them to learn the newer techniques?

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What is the status of machine translation?  What progress has been
made in the use of computers to transfer from one language to another
with some degree of automation?  What problems and stumbling blocks
have been found and are they considered to be insurmountable limitations
or only challenging to the field of documentation on an international scale?

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Is alphabetical ordering of material considered to be a useful tool in
information retrieval?  What studies have been done to compare the
effectiveness of alphabetical order with other organization schemes?
Is there a generally accepted form of arranging material in
alphabetical order, and is there an easy way of achieving this form
without going to a great amount of effort?

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The average student or researcher has difficulty in comprehending the
vocabulary of information retrieval.  It appears important that this
new field be understood before it is to be fully accepted.  What basic
articles would provide an understanding of the various important aspects
of the information storage and retrieval?

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The difficulties encountered in information retrieval systems are often
less related to the equipment used than to the failure to plan
adequately for document analysis, indexing, and machine coding.  The
position of the programmer is to take a problem and write it in a way
in which the equipment will understand.  What articles have been written
describing research in maximizing the effectiveness of programming?

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There are presently fifty to one hundred technical journals being
published.  On the average, two new journals appear every day.  In
the many journals published, one to two million articles appear every
year.  What attempts have been made to cope with this amount of
scientific and technical publication in terms of analysis, control,
storage, and retrieval?

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I am looking for information about the impact of automation on
libraries and its significance for libraries in general.  This includes
the increasing importance of automation in view of the proliferation of
information today, and how automation can help libraries cope with
this problem.  How will automation affect libraries and how should they
react to the idea of automation?

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I am seeking information on the use of data processing in libraries and
the mechanization of routine library processes and procedures.  I would
like descriptions of both general and specific applications of
automation in such areas as circulation, cataloging, acquisitions,
serial records, and other record-keeping.  Examples should be based on
the operation of a conventional public or university library, or
practices in a special library which could also be applied in a public
or university library.  Give descriptions of equipment and operations,
both present and projected.

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Is there any established means at present for an international exchange
of material about information retrieval?  If there is, does it take
the form of an international agency or center which regularly
distributes information retrieval methods and research results?  If
there is not, in what ways has this material crossed national
boundaries?  What seem to have been some of the problems blocking a
better international exchange, and is any effort being made to solve
some of those problems?

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Information retrieval is still such a new and experimental field that a
line distinguishing research and practice is often difficult - even
impossible - to draw.  Are there, however, actual centers of research
on information retrieval?  If so, in which countries are they
located?  Who supports them - government, business, universities, or
libraries?  Can information retrieval as a specialized research
discipline be said to be emerging, or is it still an amalgam of skills
from other fields, such as mathematics, engineering, and library
science?  In other words, tell me about information retrieval research.

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Most resources have been spent on applying information retrieval
techniques to the physical and medical sciences.  But, has information
retrieval been used at all in the natural sciences, social sciences,
and humanities?  If so, what have been some of the problems which have
been encountered with these subject areas and how have they been
solved, if at all?  Have the characteristics of these subject areas
necessitated the development of new information retrieval techniques?
What are the prospcts for future machine control in these areas?

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Is there any use for traditional classification schemes - DDC, UDC, LC,
etc. - in information retrieval systems?  If there is, which scheme
appears most suited to machine use and where has it been applied?
If there is not, why are these classification schemes irrelevant?
Has research shown that a subject classification of knowledge is
completely unnecessary in machine systems? Or, have new schemes
been devised which appear to be more suited to machine use?

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Coordinate indexing utilizes descriptors for controlled language.  Of
what use are descriptors in the construction of an index?  How can
descriptors be used for searching in an information retrieval system?

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What are the characteristics of MEDLARS (Medical Literature Analysis
and Retrieval System) project which has been undertaken by the
National Library of Medicine?  How does it index current medical
journals and of what relation is this indexing system to Index Medicus?
What are the major components of the MEDLARS project and its major operating
details?

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How can the computer be used in medical science for diagnostic and
clinical record keeping purposes?  Have any programs of automation
been tried in hospitals?  If so, what have been the results?
What problems have been encountered in the use of automation in
medicine?  For what purposes can an automated system of clinical
records be used?  What are other possible uses of the computer in medicine?

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What is the effect on librarians of automation?  Note the new types
of technology to be used in the library which will have an effect on
the status, position, and function of the librarians.  What changes
are being contemplated or have been initiated to introduce automation
into the education of librarians?

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What are the aims and objectives of the medical literature analysis
and retrieval system (MEDLARS)?  How does MEDLARS operate?  What are
the possible applications of MEDLARS to future information retrieval
systems?

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The standard method of finding information in today's libraries is
through the use of the alphabetically arranged card catalog or the
classified catalog based on a classification system such as the DC or
LC.  Can these systems be modified for use with automated information
retrieval?

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In catalogs which are either arranged alphabetically or arranged by
classification number, the LC entry, printed in readable language, is
ultimately important because the individual looking for information
has a definite author, title, or subject phrase in his language
(probably English in our case) in mind.  Will LC entries and subject
headings be used in the same manner in automated systems?



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Directions in Library Networking
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Avram, H.D.
McCallum, S.H.
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    Bibliographic control before and after MARC is reviewed.  The capability
of keying into online systems brought an interdependence among libraries,
the service centers that mediate between them, and the large utilities that
process and distribute data.  From this has developed the basic network
structure among libraries in the United States.  The independent development
of major networks has brought problems in standardization and coordination.
The authors point out that while technology has led toward centralization
of automated library services, new developments are now pushing toward
decentralization.  Coordination is a requirement to avoid fragmentation in
this new environment.
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(JASIS, Vol. 31, No. 6, November 1980, pp. 438-444)

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Performance Testing of a Book and Its Index as a Information Retrieval
System
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Bennion, B.C.
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    The retrieval performance of book indexes can be measured in terms of
their ability to direct a user selectively to text material whose identity
but not location is known.  The method requires human searchers to base
their searching strategies on actual passages from the book rather than on
test queries, natural or contrived.  It circumvents the need for relevance
judgement, but still yields performance indicators that correspond
approximately to the recall and precision ratios of large document retrieval
system evaluation.  A preliminary application of the method to the subject
indexing of two major encyclopedias showed one encyclopedia apparently
superior in both the finding and discrimination abilities of retrieval
performance.  The method is presently best suited for comparative testing
since its ability to yield absolute or reproducible measures is as yet not
established.
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(JASIS, Vol. 31, No. 4, July 1980, pp. 264-270)

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The Combined Use of Bibliographic Coupling and Cocitation for Document
Retrieval
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Bichteler, J.
Eaton, E.A. III
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    A linkage similarity measure which takes into account both the bibliographic
coupling of documents and their cocitations (both cited and citing papers)
produced improved document retrieval over a measure based only on
bibliographic coupling.  The test collection consisted of 1712 papers whose
relevance to specific queries had been judged by users.  To evaluate the
effect of using cocitation data, we calculated for each query two measures
of similarity between each relevant paper and every other paper retrieved.
Papers were then sorted by the similarity measures, producing two ordered
lists.  We then compared the resulting predictions of relevance, partial
relevance, and non-relevance to the user's evaluations of the same papers.
Overall, the change from the bibliographic coupling measure to the linkage
similarity measure, representing the introduction of cocitation data,
resulted in better retrieval performance.
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(JASIS, Vol. 31, No. 4, July 1980, pp. 278-282)

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Searching Biases in Large Interactive Document Retrieval Systems
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Blair, D.C.
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    The way that individuals construct and modify search queries on a
large interactive document retrieval system is subject to systematic biases
similar to those that have been demonstrated in experiments on judgements
under uncertainty.  These biases are shared by both naive and sophisticated
subjects and cause the inquirer searching for documents on a large interactive
system to construct and modify queries inefficiently.  A searching algorithm
is suggested that helps the inquirer to avoid the effect of these biases.
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(JASIS, Vol. 31, No. 4, July 1980, pp. 271-277)

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Fuzzy Requests:  An Approach to Weighted Boolean Searches
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Bookstein, A.
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    This article concerns the problem of how to permit a patron to
represent the relative importance of various index terms in a Boolean
request while retaining the desirable properties of a Boolean system.
The character of classical Boolean systems is reviewed and related to the
notion of fuzzy sets.  The fuzzy set concept then forms the basis of the
concept of a fuzzy request in which weights are assigned to index terms.
Ther properties of such a system are discussed, and it is shown that such
systems retain the manipulability of traditional Boolean requests.
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(JASIS, Vol. 31, No. 4, July 1980, pp. 240-247)

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Feature Comparison of an In-House Information Retrieval System With a
Commercial Search Service
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Boyle, S.O.
Miller, A.P.
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    A commercially available online search was used as a standard for
comparative searching and evaluation of an in-house information system
based on automatic indexing.  System features were identified and
evaluated on the basis of their usefulness in various kinds of searching,
their ease in implementation, and how they are influenced by differences
in user type or specific applications.  Some common features of the
commercial system, such as online instruction, user-specified print formats,
dictionary display, and truncation, are seen to be unnecessary or
impractical for the in-house system.  In designing the in-house system,
therefore, detald consideration must be given to the applications,
operating environment, and real user needs.  While a commercial system can
serve as a useful standard for comparative evaluation, one must be
careful not to attempt to duplicate it blindly in-house.
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(JASIS, Vol. 31, No. 5, September 1980, pp. 309-317)

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Measurement in Information Science:  Objective and Subjective Metrical Space
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Brookes, B.C.
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    It is argued that in information science we have to distinguish
physical, objective, or document space from perspective, subjective, or
information space.  These two spaces are like maps and landscapes: each
is a systematic distortion of the other.  However, transformation can be
easily made once the two spaces are distinguished.  If the transformations
are omitted we only get unhelpful physical solutions to information problems.
.B
(JASIS, Vol. 31, No. 4, July 1980, pp. 248-255)

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A Model of Cluster Searching Based on Classification
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Croft, W.B.
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    The use of document clusters has been suggested as an efficient file
organization for a document retrieval system.  It is possible that by
using this information about the relationships between documents that the
effectiveness of the system (i.e., its ability to distinguish relevant
from non-relevant documents) may also be improved.  In this paper a
probabilistic model of cluster searching  based on query classification is
described.  This model is tested with retrieval experiments which indicate
that it can be more effective than heuristic cluster searches and cluster
searches based on other models.  It can also be more effective than a full
search in which every document is compared to the query.  The efficiency
aspects of the implementation of the model are discussed.
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(Inform. Systems, Vol. 5, No. 3, 1980, pp. 189-195)

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The Technology of Library and Information Networks
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Epstein, H.
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    Current online library network technology is described, including the
physical and functional aspects of networks.  Three types of networks are
distinguished:  search service (e.g., SDC, Lockheed), customized service
that provide bibliographic files (e.g., OCLC, Inc., RLIN), and service
center (e.g., NELINET, INCOLSA).  It is predicted that as technology
evolves more services will be provided outside the library directly to the
user through his home or office.
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(JASIS, Vol. 31, No. 6, November 1980, pp. 425-437)

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The Use of Titles for Automatic Document Classification
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Hamill, K.A.
Zamora, A.
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    An experimental computer program has been developed to classify
documents according to the 80 sections and five major section groupings of
Chemical Abstracts (CA).  The program uses pattern recognition techniques
supplemented by heuristics.  During the "training" phase, words from
pre-classified documents are selected, and the probability of occurrence
of each word in each section of CA is computed and stored in a reference
dictionary.  The "classification" phase matches each word of a document
title against the dictionary and assigns a section number to the document
using weights derived from the probabilities in the dictionary.  Heuristic
techniques are used to normalize word variants such as plurals, past
tenses, and gerunds in both the training phase and the classification
phase.  The dictionary lookup technique is supplemented by the analysis of
chemical nomenclature terms into their component word roots to influence
the section to which the documents are assigned.  Program performance and
human consistency have been evaluated by comparing the program results
against the published sections of CA and by conducting an experiment with
people experienced in the assignment of documents to CA sections.  The
program assigned approximately 78% of the documents to the correct major
section groupings of CA and 67% of the correct sections or cross-references
at a rate of 100 documents per second.
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(JASIS, Vol. 31, No. 6, November 1980, pp. 396-402)

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Brief Communications
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Harding, A.G.
Willett, P.
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    Some of the automatic classification procedures used in information
retrieval derive clusters of documents from an intermediate similarity
matrix, the computation of which involves comparing each of the documents
in the collection with all of the others.  It has recently been suggested
that many of these comparisons, specifically those between documents
having no terms in common, may be avoided by means of the uyse of an inverted
file to the document collection.  This communication shows that the
approach will effect reductions in the number of interdocument comparisons
only if the documents are each indexed by a limited number of indexing
terms; if exhaustive indexing is used, many document pairs will be compared
several times over and the computation will be greater than when
conventional approaches are used to generate the similarity matrix.
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(JASIS, Vol. 31, No. 4, July 1980, pp. 298-299)

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The Application of a Minicomputer to Thesaurus Construction
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Kazlauskas, E.J.
Holt, T.D.
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    The Use of a minicomputer in various phases of creating the thesaurus
for the National Information Center for Special Education Materials
(NICSEM) database is described.  The minicomputer is used to collect,
edit, and correct candidate thesaurus terms.  The use of the minicomputer
eases the process of grouping terms into files of similar concepts and
facilitates the generation of products useful in vocabulary review and in
term structuring.  Syndetic relations, indicated by assigning coded
identification numbers, are altered easily in the design phase to reflect
restructuring requirements.  Because thesaurus terms are already in machine-
readable form, it is simple to prepare print programs to provide permuted,
alphabetic, hierarchical, and chart formatted term displays.  Overall, the
use of the minicomputer facilitates initial thesaurus entry development by
reducing clerical effort, editorial staff decisions, and overall processing
times.
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(JASIS, Vol. 31, No. 5, September 1980, pp. 363-368)

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Adaptive Design for Decision Support Systems
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Keen, P.G.W.
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    Decision Support Systems (DSS) represent a concept of the role of
computers within the decision making process.  The term has become a
rallying cry for researchers, practitioners, and managers concerned that
Management Science and Management Information Systems fields have become
unnecessarily narrow in focus.  As with many rallying cries, the term is
not well defined.  For some writers, DSS simply mean interactive systems
for use by managers.  To others, the key issue is support, rather than
system.  They focus on understanding and improving the decision process;
a DSS is then designed using any available and suitable technology. Some
researchers view DSS as a subfield of MIS, while others regard it as an
extension of Management Science techniques.  The former define Decision
Support as providing managers with access to data and the latter as giving
them access to analytic models.

    The key argument of this paper is that the term DSS is relevant to
situations where a "final" system can be developed only through an
adaptive process of learning and evolution.  The design strategy must
then focus on getting finished; this is very different from Management
Science and Data Processing approaches.  The research issued for DSS
center around adaption and evolution; they include managerial learning
representation of tasks and user behavior, design architecture and
strategies for getting started.
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(Database, Vol. 12, No. 1-2, Fall 1980)

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An Automatic Method for Extracting Significant
Phrases in Scienfific or Technical Documents
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Maeda, T.
Momouchi, J.
Sawamura, H.
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    A new method is described to extract significant phrases in the title
and the abstreact of scientific or technical documents.  The method is
based upon a text structure analysis and uses a relatively small dictionary.
The dictionary has been constructed based on the knowledge about concepts
in the field of science or technology and some lexical knowledge.  For
significant phrases and their component items may be used in different
meanings among the fields.  A text analysius approach has been applied to
select significant phrases as substantial and semantic information carriers
of the contents of the abstract.

    The results of the experiment for five sets of documents have shown
that the significant phrases are effectively extracted in all cases, and
the number of them for every document and the processing time is fairly
satisfactory.  The information representation of the document, partly
using the method, is discussed with relation to the construction of the
document information retrieval system.
.B
(Info. Proc. & Management, Vol. 16, No. 3, 1980, pp.119-127)

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Answer-Passage Retrieval by Text Searching
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O'Connor, J.
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    Passage retrieval (already operational for lawyers) has advantages in
output form opver references retrieval and is economically feasible.
Previous experiments in passage retrieval for scientists have demonstrated
recall and false retrieval rates as good or better than those of present
reference retrieval services.  The present experiment involved a greater
variety of forms of retrieval question.  In addition, search words were
selected independently by two different people for each retrieval question.
The search words selected, in combination with the computer procedures used
for passage retrieval, produced average recall ratios of 72 and 67%,
respectively, for the two selectors.  The false retrieval rates were (except
for one predictably difficult question) respectively 13 and 10 falsely
retrieved sentences per answer-paper retrieved.
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(JASIS, Vol. 31, No. 4, July 1980, pp. 227-239)

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Partial-Match Retrieval Using Indexed Descriptor Files
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Pfaltz, J.L.
Berman, W.J.
Cagley, E.M.
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    In this paper we describe a practical method of partial-match retrieval
in very large data files.  A binary code word, called a descriptor, is
associated with each record of the file.  These record descriptors are
then used to form a derived descriptor for a block of several records,
which will serve as an index for the block as a whole; hence, the name
"indexed descriptor files."

    First the structure of these files is described and a simple, efficient
retrieval algorithm is presented.  Then its expected behavior, in terms of
storage accesses, is analyzed in detail.  Two different file creation
procedures are sketched, and a number of ways in which the file organization
can be "tuned" to a particular application is suggested.
.B
(Commun. ACM, Vol. 23, No. 9, September 1980, pp. 522-528)

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Cooperation and Competition Among Library Networks
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Robinson, B.M.
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    Recenty technological advances and the success of OCLC, Inc. has led
to the emergence of three additional nonprofit library networks:  the
Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN) of the Research Libraries
Group, Inc., the University of Toronto Library Automation System (UTLAS),
and the Washington Library Network (WLN).  This paper examines the economic
and technological factors affecting the evolution of these networks and
also explores the role of those state and regional (multistate) networks
that broker OCLC services.  The competitive and cooperative nature of
network relationships is a major theme of the discussion.
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(JASIS, Vol. 31, No. 6, November 1980, pp. 413-424)

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An Integrated Understander
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Schank, R.C.
Lebowitz, M.
Birnbarim, L.
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    A new type of natural language parser is presented.  The idea behind
this parser is to map input sentences into the deepest form of the
representation of their meaning and inferences, as is appropriate.  The
parser is not distinct from an entire understanding system.  It uses an
integrated conception of inferences, scripts, plans and other knowledge to
aid in the parse.  Furthermore, it does not attempt to parse everything it
sees.  Rather, it determines what is most interesting and concentrates on
that, ignoring the rest.
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(Am. J. of Computational Linguistics, Vol. 6, No. 1, January-March 1980,
pp. 13-30)

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Library Networks and Resource Sharing in the United States:
An Historical and Philosophical Overview
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Stevens, N.D.
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    This paper discusses the origins of library networks and traces their
development in the United States in the late 1960s through the present.
The concept of resource sharing, with particular attention to the inter-
library loan and programs for the cooperative acquisition and storage of
materials, is examined in relationship to library networks.  In particular,
attention is given to the question of how these two major components of
library cooperation, which have tended to be separate, might become more
closely integrated.
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(JASIS, Vol. 31, No. 6, November 1980, pp. 405-412)

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Normalization of Titles and Their Retrieval
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Takamatsu, S.
Fujita, UY.
Nishida, F.
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    This paper presents a method of normalizations of English titles and
their retrieval.  The title expressed by a noun phrase or a noun clause
is converted to a function-expression by parsing.  For the retrieval with
a reasonable recall rate as well as a high precision rate, the function-
expression is transformed to a predicate-governor form, and then normalized
to a standard form.  Therefrom, various items are extracted and recorded
in a hierarchical tree-like inverted file.

    In order to keep the recall rate in a reasonable value, several
retrieval stages are implemented based on the key-term and case-label
matching.  The retrieval is controlled by the preciseness of the specification
of case-labels for each key-term.
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(Info. Proc. & Management, Vol. 16, No. 3, 1980, pp. 155-167)

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Cascaded ATN Grammars
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Woods, W.A.
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    A generalization of the notion of ATN grammar, called a cascaded ATN
(CATN), is prescribed.  CATN's permit a decomposition of complex language
understanding behavior into a sequence of cooperating ATN's with separate
domain of responsibility, where each stage (called an ATN transducer)
takes its input from the output of the previous stage.  The paper includes
an extensive discjussion of the principles of factoring-conceptual
factoring reduces the number of places that a given fact needs to be
represented in a grammar, and hypothesis factoring reduces the number
of distinct hypotheses that have to be considered during parsing.
.B
(Am. of Computational Linguistics, Vol. 6, No. 1, January-March 1980)

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Algorithms for Processing Partial Match Queries Using Word Fragments
.A
Alagar, V.S.
.W
    Algorithms are given to process partially specified queries in a
compressed database system.  The proposed methods handle effectively
queries that use either whole words or word fragments as language elements.
The methods are compared and critically evaluated in terms of the design
and retrieval costs.  The analyses show that the method which exploits the
interdependence of fragments as well as the relevance of fragments to
records in the file has maximum design cost and least retrieval cost.
.B
(Inform. Systems, Vol. 5, No. 4, April 1980, pp. 323-332)

.I 80
.T
A General Formulation of Bradford's Distribution:  The Graph-Oriented
Approach
.A
Asai, I.
.W
    From the detailed analysis of eight previously published mathematical
models, a general formulation of Bradford's distribution can be deduced as
follows:  y = a log(x + c) + b, where y is the ratio of the cumulative
frequency of articles to the total number of articles and x is the ratio
of the rank of journals to the total number of journals.  The parameters a, b,
and c are the slope, the intercept, and the shift in a straight line to log rank,
respectively.  Each of the eight models is a special case of the general
formulation and is one of five types of formulation.  In order to estimate
three unknown parameters, a statistical method using root-weighted square
error is proposed.  A comparative experiment using 11 databases suggests that
the fifth type of formulation with three unknown parameters is the best fit
to the observed data.  A further experiment shows that the deletion of the
droop data leads to a more accurate value of parameters and less error.
.B
(JASIS, Vol. 32, No. 2, March 1981, pp. 113-121)

.I 81
.T
Lexical Problems in Large Distributed Information Systems
.A
Berkovich, S.Y.
Shneiderman, B.
.W
    The lexical problems in large information systems are created by the
necessity of handling a great number of names and their interrelations.
Such lexical problems are not covered completely by the concept data
dictionaries, which are mostly concerned with database scheme design rather
than the execution of operations.  In this paper we introduce our view of a
lexical subsystem as a separate component in an information system architecture,
to deal with linguistic and control functions concerning the lexical problems
in local and network environments.  The lexical suybsystem is a special
efficiently organized program package, which plays the role of a "linguistic
filter" in a broad sense for lexically incorrect queries, promotes integration
of databases and information retrieval systems, and facilitates the creation
of local information systems.  We hope that lexical subsystems can become
productive for any large, especially distributed, information system.
.B
(Information Processing & Management, Vol. 16, February 1980, pp. 259-267)

.I 82
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The Relational Model in Information Retrieval
.A
Crawford, R.G.
.W
    The relational model has received increasing attention during the
past decade.  Its advantages include simplicity, consistency, and a sound
theoretical basis.  In this article, the naturalness of viewing information
retrieval relationally is demonstrated.  The relational model is presented,
and the relational organization of a bibliographical database is shown.
The notion of normalization is introduced and first, second, third, and
fourth normal forms are demonstrated.  Relational languages are discussed,
including the relational calculus, relational algebra, and SEQUEL.
Numerous examples pertinent to information retrieval are presented in these
relational languages.  Advantages of the relational approach to information
retrieval are noted.
.B
(JASIS, Vol. 32, No. 1, January 1981, pp. 51-64)

.I 83
.T
Electronic Information Interchange in an Office Environment
.A
DeSousa, M.R.
.W
    This paper describes an architectural approach that provides information
exchange across a broad spectrum of user applications and office automation
offerings.  Some of the architectures described herein are currently
implemented in existing IBM products.  These and other architectures will
provide the basis for document interchange capability between products
such as the IBM 5520 Administrative System, the IBM System/370 Distributed
Office Support System (DISOSS), and the IBM Displaywriter System.
Specifically described is a document distribution architecture and its
associated data streams and others.

    A general overview of the architectures as opposed to a detailed
technical description is provided.  The architectures described are
protocols for interchange between application processes; they do not
address the specific user interface.  The document distribution
architectures utilize SNA for data transmission and communications control
facilities.
.B
(IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 20, No. 1, 1981, pp. 4-22)

.I 84
.T
The Use of Automatic Relevance Feedback in Boolean Retrieval Systems
.A
Dillon, M.
Desper, J.
.W
    A technique is described for automatic reformulation of boolean
queries.  Based on patron relevance judgements of an initial retrieval,
prevalence measures are derived for terms appearing in the retrieved set
of documents that reflect a term's distribution among the relevant and
non-relevant documents.  These measures are then used to guide the
construction of a boolean query for a subsequent retrieval.  To illustrate
the technique, a series of tests is described of its application to a small
data base in an experimental environment.  Results compare favourably with
feedback as employed in a SMART-type system.  MOre extensive testing is
suggested to validate the technique.
.B
(Journal of Documentation, Vol. 36, No. 3, September 1980, pp. 197-208)

.I 85
.T
Interacting in Natural Language With Artificial Systems:  The Donau Project
.A
Guida, G.
Somalvico, M.
.W
    This paper is intended to propose a new methodological approach to
the conception and development of natural language understanding systems.
This new contribution is supported by the design, implementation, and
experimentation of DONAU:  a general purpose domain oriented natural
language understanding system developed and presently running at the Milan
Polytechnic Artificial Intelligence Project.  The system is based on a two
level modular architecture intended to overcome the lack of flexibility and
generality often pointed out in many existing systems, and to facilitate
the exchange of results and actual experiences between different projects.
The horizontal level allows an independent and parallel development of the
single segments of the system (syntactic analyser, information extractor,
legality controller).  The vertical level ensures the possibility of changing
(enlarging or redefining) the definition of the semantic domain on which each
particular version of the system is oriented and specialized in a simple,
incremental, and user-oriented way.  In the paper the general architecture of
the system and the mode of operation of each segment are illustrated in
detail.  Linguistic models, knowledge representation, and parsing algorithms
are described and illustrated by means of selected examples.  Performance
evaluations of the system in the application version on data base inquiry are
reported and discussed.  Promising directions for future research are presented
in the conclusions.
.B
(Inform. Systems, Vol. 5, NO. 4, February 1980, pp. 333-344)

.I 86
.T
Approximate String Matching
.A
Hall, P.A.V.
Dowling, G.R.
.W
    Approximate matching of strings is reviewed with the aim of
surveying techniques suitable for finding an item in a database when
there may be a spelling mistake or other error in the keyword.  The
methods found are classified as either equivalence or similarity problems.
Equivalence problems are seen to be readily solved using canonical forms.
For similarity problems difference measures are surveyed, with a full
description of the well-established dynamic programming method relating
this to the approach using probabilities and likelihoods.  Searches for
approximate matches in large sets using a difference function are seen to
be an open problem still, though several promising ideas have been
suggested.  Approximate matching (error correction) during parsing is
briefly reviewed.
.B
(Computing Surveys, Vol. 12, No. 4, December 1980, pp. 381-402)

.I 87
.T
Using an Online Microfiche Catalog for Technical Service and Retrieval of
Bibliographic Data
.A
Hayes, R.M.
Borko, H.
.W
    A prototype system is created that integrates a microfiche catalog
into an online computer system for bibliographic control.  Costs and
operational data are collected and analyzed.  The system permits the more
economical microfiche storage of catalog records than would be feasible
for comparable online magnetic disk storage.  Experimental tests
demonstrate the feasibility of the online microfiche catalog system for use
in library technical services and retrieval of bibliographic data.  The
primary result of the project is the creation of a completely operational
facility, including all equipment, software, procedures, and data bases
necessary to demonstrate the system.  A second set of results is derived
from the experimental use of the system and the evaluation of costs and
times for various operations.  The cost effectiveness of the online microfiche
catalog is demonstrated.
.B
(Information Processing and Management, Vol. 16, No. 6, February 1980,
pp. 277-289)

.I 88
.T
Natural Language Access to Information Systems.  An Evaluation Study
of Its Acceptance by End Users
.A
Krause, J.
.W
    The question is asked whether it is feasible to use subsets of
natural languages as query languages for data bases in actual applications
using the question answering system "USER SPECIALTY LANGUAGES" (USL).
Methods of evaluating a natural language based information system will
be discussed.  The results (error and language structure evaluation)
suggest how to form the general architecture of application systems which
use a subset of German as query language.