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Salton, Gerard
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York
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  Needs for research in indexing
Milstead J. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 45(9): 577-582, 1994.  Type: Article

The author decries the fact that there is less research activity and less interest now than there was 20 years ago in the construction of printed or machine-readable indexes, and in the human factors that go into the construction of ef...

Apr 1 1996  
  Towards language independent automated learning of text categorization models
Apté C., Damerau F., Weiss S.  Research and development in information retrieval (Proceedings of the 17th annual international ACM SIGIR conference, Dublin, Ireland, Jul 3-6, 1994) 23-30, 1994.  Type: Proceedings

An automatic rule-based method for assigning texts to predetermined categories is described in this straightforward account. A training sample of texts with known classification tags is used to construct rules capable of classifying ne...

Sep 1 1995  
  What computers still can’t do
Dreyfus H. (ed), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1992.  Type: Book (9780262540674)

For several decades, a sometimes heated debate has taken place among the experts concerning the role and ultimate usefulness of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. In the early years, sweeping predictions were made of the promise of ...

Nov 1 1993  
  Information retrieval
Frakes W., Baeza-Yates R., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1992.  Type: Book (9780134638379)

The area of text analysis, search, and retrieval has taken on increasing importance in recent years, and the field is now of interest to large communities in science and in the humanities. The need for a volume covering the major infor...

Jul 1 1993  
  Current research in natural language generation
Dale R. (ed), Mellish C. (ed), Zock M., Academic Press Prof., Inc., San Diego, CA, 1990.  Type: Book (9780122007354)

One of the most interesting applications of natural language processing is the automatic generation of natural language text by computer. Many areas of language-related computer use would become much more interesting and approachable i...

Nov 1 1992  
  Language and representation in information retrieval
Blair D., Elsevier North-Holland, Inc., New York, NY, 1990.  Type: Book (9780444884374)

I am torn between admiration and distress. One half of this volume (chapters 4 and 6) treats aspects of the philosophy of language and the philosophy of science, respectively. These topics are only remotely connected with information r...

Nov 1 1990  
  Speech input and output assessment: multilingual methods and standards
Fourcin A. (ed), Harland G. (ed), Barry W. (ed), Hazan V. (ed), Halsted Press, New York, NY, 1989.  Type: Book (9789780470214398)

This book describes an interesting topic: how to assess speech synthesis and speech recognition systems, that is, what components to look at and what methodologies to use in assessing their performance. The text is largely unreadable a...

Feb 1 1990  
  Contexts--a partitioning concept for hypertext
Delisle N., Schwartz M. ACM Transactions on Information Systems 5(2): 168-186, 1987.  Type: Article

Hypertext is a system that exhibits structure in documents, or document sets, by using links between related text elements or text portions. These links can be followed to construct particular text revisions and to display relationship...

Nov 1 1988  
  A coding scheme as a basis for the production of customized abstracts
Craven T. Journal of Information Science 13(1): 51-58, 1987.  Type: Article

The conventional automatic document abstraction systems are based on an identification of document sentences believed to reflect document content, followed by the extraction and stringing together of the most important sentences. The a...

Mar 1 1988  
  Mind over machine: the power of human intuition and expertise in the era of the computer
Dreyfus H. (ed), Dreyfus S., Athanasiou T., The Free Press, New York, NY, 1986.  Type: Book (9789780029080603)

The book under review represents an interesting and highly challenging account of the limitations of computer capabilities in the areas of cognition and artificial reasoning, written by two well-known critics of the artificial intellig...

Sep 1 1987  
 
 
 
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