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New systems and current research
Volume 1

Edited by Ruben Leon

 
 
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Published here are twelve expert contributions presented to the Research Colloquium of the British Computer Society's Information Retrieval Specialist Group. The scope is extensive, and includes: CALS and its implications for the library and information retrieval communities; RADA: an information system to emulate and enhance corporate communication structures; From automated library to electronic library: challenges for information retrieval; Information retrieval using relational views; Ongoing work on Bead; an information visualiser; Measuring the consistency of assignment of hypertext links in full text documents; Heuristic search in information retrieval; IMAGING: a relevant feedback retrieval with nearest neighbour clusters; HIBROWSE: adding the power of relational databases to the traditional IR architecture - the future for Graphic User Interfaces; 'NESS-plants': an interactive multimedia information system for botanic gardens; Lexical clustering and retrieval of bibliographic records; and Query reformulation in ranked output interaction.
 
Vital reading for all concerned with contemporary information retrieval research.
 
(See also Volume 2)
 
ISBN 0 947568 62 X
1994
£30.00/US$55.00
 
'covers a wide range of topics reflecting the diversity of concerns raised by new applications in information handling, as well as the perennial underlying basic issues of information retrieval.'
Journal of Librarianship and Information Science