Abstract
Focusing on communication, the paper analyses and proposes practical solutions to key problems in online IR, in particular concerned with ill- defined and "muddled" information requirements, concept interpretation in searching and text representation. The need for development of new additional browsing and scanning feedback devices, based on existing methods to support searchers is emphasised. The paper points to economically feasible indexing methods fitting the potentials of current information technology and adaptable to in-house information environments: The SAP (Subject Access Project) principles. Focusing display mechanisms and the term frequency analysis feature Zoom are discussed and suggested combined into a flexible database front-end. The design principles are outlined and demonstrated in a worked example.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 9th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 1986 |
| Editors | Fausto Rabitti |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Publication date | 1 Sept 1986 |
| Pages | 68-76 |
| Article number | 253188 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 0897911873, 9780897911870 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Sept 1986 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 9th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 1986 - Pisa, Italy Duration: 8 Sept 1986 → 10 Sept 1986 |
Conference
| Conference | 9th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 1986 |
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| Country/Territory | Italy |
| City | Pisa |
| Period | 08/09/1986 → 10/09/1986 |
| Sponsor | Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR) |