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   Information extraction from free-text business documents
Abramowicz W., Piskorski J. In Effective databases for text & document management. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing, 2003.  Type: Book Chapter

The need and existing processes for the conversion of free text into structured data, in real-world business applications, is investigated in this chapter....

Jan 21 2004  
  ScentTrails: integrating browsing and searching on the Web
Olston C., Chi E. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 10(3): 177-197, 2003.  Type: Article

With ScentTrails, Olston and Chi provide a sorely needed approach to finding information on the Web that integrates the browsing and searching functions that many searchers use for information seeking. Their system highlights links of ...

Dec 2 2003  
  Extracting usability information from user interface events
Hilbert D., Redmiles D. ACM Computing Surveys 32(4): 384-421, 2000.  Type: Article

This survey and its resulting framework provide a useful compilation of information to aid designers and students of software interfaces. The framework provides a conceptual evaluation and identifies relative merits and drawbacks of cl...

Aug 1 2001  
  Usability, user preferences, effectiveness, and user behaviors when searching individual and integrated full-text databases: implications for digital libraries
Park S. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 51(5): 456-468, 2000.  Type: Article

Park compares usability, user preferences, effectiveness, and searching behaviors for highly educated and experienced searchers using either a common interface to separately search multiple databases or an integrated interface to concu...

Jun 1 2000  
  Interaction with an enabling information retrieval system: modeling the user’s decoding and encoding operations
Cole C. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 51(5): 417-426, 2000.  Type: Article

The author’s goal is to create a general model of the cognitive operations of a generic searcher. Using both Shannon’s model of information flow and Popper’s schema of problem-solving in stages, the model ...

Mar 1 2000  
  Children’s relevance criteria and information seeking on electronic resources
Hirsh S. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 50(14): 1265-1283, 1999.  Type: Article

As children move from using more structured electronic resources to the more uncontrolled and unfiltered resources of the Web, it is vital that resource designers and providers understand their needs and search behaviors. This study fo...

Jan 1 2000  
  A study of the use of variables in information retrieval user studies
Yuan W., Meadow C. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 50(2): 140-150, 1999.  Type: Article

Yuan and Meadow propose common use of variables as a measure ofcommon subject matter or common approach to a subject among researchers.They compare this type of measure with co-citation, in which thecitation of works among authors is m...

Sep 1 1999  
  Retrieval effectiveness of surname-title-word searches for known items by academic library users
Kilgour F., Moran B., Barden J. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 50(3): 265-270, 1999.  Type: Article

Reporting on the fourth in a series of experiments, the authorsfind that, in 98.5 percent of searches, the first author’s surnamecombined with up to the first three meaningful words in the titleproduces a one-screen (no more ...

Jul 1 1999  
  Collaborative information retrieval
Karamuftuoglu M. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 49(12): 1070-1080, 1998.  Type: Article

The production of new knowledge is considered as a fundamental concern of information retrieval, along with the traditional problem of transmitting existing knowledge. Retrieving documents to satisfy a need for information (the traditi...

Apr 1 1999  
  A conversation with Austin Henderson
Ehrlich K. (ed) interactions 5(6): 36-47, 1998.  Type: Article

Austin Henderson shares lessons learned in his years of practice in human-computer interaction. He begins by identifying three viewpoints that form the basis of a project: scientists asking “Where are we?” designers...

Dec 1 1998  
 
 
 
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