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- Following the pattern of the previous
volume of papers presented to the British Computer Society's
Information Retrieval Specialist Group, Ruben Leon has edited
here a new and stimulating collection of high quality research
studies. A broad range of themes are included: Mrs Thatcher's
handbag modem; Design of a graphical user interface for a highly
interactive information retrieval system; Discovery of optimal
weights in a concept selection system; Information retrieval
by imaging; Codon Signatures - a document retrieval method; Signature
files and beyond; Supporting query by navigation; Using WordNet
for conceptual distance measurement; Potential for incorporating
document ranking in the MenUSE front-end search intermediary
system; Reuters test collection; Situations - a general framework
for studying information retrieval; Natural language understanding
system for reference resolution in information dialogues.
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- This volume demonstrates some of the most interesting approaches
being adopted in information retrieval systems planning and research.
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- ISBN 0 947568 70 0
- 1996
- £30.00/US$55.00
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- '.... of a consistently high standard and drawn from the
knowledge of some of the key researchers in the field.'
- Australian Library Journal
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- 'valuable from an interdisciplinary perspective to the
broader community of researchers on the technical side of information
management, information systems or informatics'.
- Education for Information
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- 'for those interested in the leading edge of information
retrieval research.'
- Library Association Record
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