Traditionally the information retrieval community has avoided the type of data base management systems used in business applications. In this article it is shown how SEQUEL, a language designed for use in a data base management system, is potentially suited to a document retrieval system. The disadvantages of SEQUEL as it currently exists are discussed, and some extensions are proposed which appear to eliminate many of these disadvantages.
{"title":"SEQUEL as a Language for Document Retrieval","authors":"I. Macleod","doi":"10.1002/asi.4630300502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.4630300502","url":null,"abstract":"Traditionally the information retrieval community has avoided the type of data base management systems used in business applications. In this article it is shown how SEQUEL, a language designed for use in a data base management system, is potentially suited to a document retrieval system. The disadvantages of SEQUEL as it currently exists are discussed, and some extensions are proposed which appear to eliminate many of these disadvantages.","PeriodicalId":50013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology","volume":"118 1","pages":"243-249"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77930204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
An on‐line document retrieval system is described which combines a data base management system with automatic processing of natural language queries and abstracts. Data consists of an abstract, from which index terms are automatically extracted, along with bibliographic and descriptive information. The data base management system is used to store bibliographic and descriptive information, providing direct access to documents with specified bibliographic or descriptor items. Methods originally developed in the SMART project are used for abstract analysis: stemming algorithm, cosine function for query‐document comparisons, ranked output, and clustered document collection. Searches are entered and performed on‐line, with output consisting of document abstracts ranked in decreasing order of similarity with the query. Additional facilities include off‐line searches, SDI, and display of data base statistics. Future plans and improvements are also discussed.
{"title":"FIRST: Flexible Information Retrieval System for Text","authors":"R. Dattola","doi":"10.1002/asi.4630300103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.4630300103","url":null,"abstract":"An on‐line document retrieval system is described which combines a data base management system with automatic processing of natural language queries and abstracts. Data consists of an abstract, from which index terms are automatically extracted, along with bibliographic and descriptive information. The data base management system is used to store bibliographic and descriptive information, providing direct access to documents with specified bibliographic or descriptor items. Methods originally developed in the SMART project are used for abstract analysis: stemming algorithm, cosine function for query‐document comparisons, ranked output, and clustered document collection. Searches are entered and performed on‐line, with output consisting of document abstracts ranked in decreasing order of similarity with the query. Additional facilities include off‐line searches, SDI, and display of data base statistics. Future plans and improvements are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":50013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology","volume":"35 1","pages":"9-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86571504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2000-12-01DOI: 10.1002/1097-4571(2000)9999:9999%3C::AID-ASI1039%3E3.0.CO;2-O
Ping Zhang, G. M. V. Dran
Proliferating Web-user interface studies prompt a need for theoretical approaches. This study presents a two-factor model that can guide Website design and evaluation. According to the model, there are two types of Website design factors: hygiene and motivator. Hygiene factors are those whose presence make a Website functional and serviceable, and whose absence causes user dissatisfaction (thus dissatisfiers). Motivator factors, on the other hand, are those that add value to the Website by contributing to user satisfaction (thus satisfiers). An empirical study is conducted in two phases. In Phase I, 44 core features and 12 categories of features were identified by a total of 76 subjects as Web design factors. In Phase II, 79 different subjects distinguished hygiene and motivator factors in the context of a particular Website (CNN.com). The results showed that the two-factor model provides a means for Web-user interface studies. In addition, Subjects in Phase II commented that, as time passes or familiarity increases with certain design factors, their identification of what are hygiene and motivator factors might change, promoting further investigation and possible expansion of the model. Suggestions for Website designs and evaluation, and further research directions are provided.
{"title":"Satisfiers and dissatisfiers: A two-factor model for website design and evaluation","authors":"Ping Zhang, G. M. V. Dran","doi":"10.1002/1097-4571(2000)9999:9999%3C::AID-ASI1039%3E3.0.CO;2-O","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/1097-4571(2000)9999:9999%3C::AID-ASI1039%3E3.0.CO;2-O","url":null,"abstract":"Proliferating Web-user interface studies prompt a need for theoretical approaches. This study presents a two-factor model that can guide Website design and evaluation. According to the model, there are two types of Website design factors: hygiene and motivator. Hygiene factors are those whose presence make a Website functional and serviceable, and whose absence causes user dissatisfaction (thus dissatisfiers). Motivator factors, on the other hand, are those that add value to the Website by contributing to user satisfaction (thus satisfiers). An empirical study is conducted in two phases. In Phase I, 44 core features and 12 categories of features were identified by a total of 76 subjects as Web design factors. In Phase II, 79 different subjects distinguished hygiene and motivator factors in the context of a particular Website (CNN.com). The results showed that the two-factor model provides a means for Web-user interface studies. In addition, Subjects in Phase II commented that, as time passes or familiarity increases with certain design factors, their identification of what are hygiene and motivator factors might change, promoting further investigation and possible expansion of the model. Suggestions for Website designs and evaluation, and further research directions are provided.","PeriodicalId":50013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":"1253-1268"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90852478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2000-12-01DOI: 10.1002/1097-4571(2000)9999:9999%3C::AID-ASI1046%3E3.0.CO;2-W
John P. Walsh, Stephanie Kucker, Nancy G. Maloney, S. Gabbay
This article summarizes the preliminary findings from a recent study of scientists in four disciplines with regard to computer‐mediated communication (CMC) use and effects. Based on surveys from 333 scientists, we find that CMC use is central to both professional and research‐related aspects of scientific work, and that this use differs by field. We find that e‐mail use focuses on coordination activities, and its biggest effect is helping to integrate scientists into professional networks. We do not find gender differences in use, but there is some evidence that e‐mail is having a differential, positive effect for women. Furthermore, CMC use is positively associated with scientific productivity and collaboration.
{"title":"Connecting minds: Computer-mediated communication and scientific work","authors":"John P. Walsh, Stephanie Kucker, Nancy G. Maloney, S. Gabbay","doi":"10.1002/1097-4571(2000)9999:9999%3C::AID-ASI1046%3E3.0.CO;2-W","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/1097-4571(2000)9999:9999%3C::AID-ASI1046%3E3.0.CO;2-W","url":null,"abstract":"This article summarizes the preliminary findings from a recent study of scientists in four disciplines with regard to computer‐mediated communication (CMC) use and effects. Based on surveys from 333 scientists, we find that CMC use is central to both professional and research‐related aspects of scientific work, and that this use differs by field. We find that e‐mail use focuses on coordination activities, and its biggest effect is helping to integrate scientists into professional networks. We do not find gender differences in use, but there is some evidence that e‐mail is having a differential, positive effect for women. Furthermore, CMC use is positively associated with scientific productivity and collaboration.","PeriodicalId":50013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology","volume":"62 1","pages":"1295-1305"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89404680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2000-12-01DOI: 10.1002/1097-4571(2000)9999:9999%3C::AID-ASI1049%3E3.0.CO;2-N
A. Weller
This article reviews the evolution and growth of electronic journals, and describes the various emerging models of editorial peer review in an electronic environment. There is some debate about whether the traditional model of editorial peer review should be altered. Medicine, physics, and psychology are taking different approaches with editorial peer review in an electronic environment. This article summarizes several studies of peer review in an electronic environment. Studies to date have focused on attitudes toward electronic publications and citation patterns of electronic journals. Future trends and levels of acceptance of the new models are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2000-12-01DOI: 10.1002/1097-4571(2000)9999:9999%3C::AID-ASI1042%3E3.0.CO;2-7
Mark D. Dunlop
Evaluation in information retrieval (IR) has focussed largely on noninteractive evaluation of text retrieval systems. This is increasingly at odds with how people use modern IR systems: in highly interactive settings to access linked, multimedia information. Furthermore, this approach ignores potential improvements through better interface design. In 1996 the Commission of the European Union Information Technologies Programme, funded a three year working group, Mira, to discuss and advance research in the area of evaluation frameworks for interactive and multimedia IR applications. Led by Keith van Rijsbergen, Steve Draper and myself from Glasgow University, this working group brought together many of the leading researchers in the evaluation domain from both the IR and human computer interaction (HCI) communities. This paper presents my personal view of the main lines of discussion that took place throughout Mira: importing and adapting evaluation techniques from HCI, evaluating at different levels as appropriate, evaluating against different types of relevance and the new challenges that drive the need for rethinking the old evaluation approaches. The paper concludes that we need to consider more varied forms of evaluation to complement engine evaluation.
信息检索中的评价主要集中在文本检索系统的非交互式评价上。这与人们使用现代IR系统的方式越来越不一致:在高度互动的环境中访问链接的多媒体信息。此外，这种方法忽略了通过更好的界面设计所带来的潜在改进。1996年，欧洲联盟信息技术方案委员会资助了一个为期三年的工作组Mira，讨论和推进交互式和多媒体信息技术应用评价框架领域的研究。这个工作组由格拉斯哥大学的Keith van Rijsbergen、Steve Draper和我自己领导，汇集了许多来自IR和人机交互(HCI)社区的评估领域的主要研究人员。本文介绍了我个人对Mira讨论主线的看法:从HCI引进和调整评估技术，适当地在不同层次进行评估，针对不同类型的相关性进行评估，以及推动重新思考旧评估方法的新挑战。本文的结论是，我们需要考虑更多样化的评估形式来补充发动机的评估。
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Pub Date : 2000-12-01DOI: 10.1002/1097-4571(2000)9999:9999%3C::AID-ASI1050%3E3.0.CO;2-C
M. LaFollette
The community of specialists in scientific information and communication must begin to give more vigorous attention to its expectations for ethical conduct by authors, reviewers, editors, and publishers in the realm of electronic publishing, and to consider how those expectations may differ from the standards applied in a print‐based environment. The author suggests five areas that deserve special attention: ensuring the accuracy and truthfulness of content; building trust among editors, reviewers, and authors; sustaining a level of civility in electronic forums for scientific and technical debate; protecting the intellectual property of authors and publishers; and preserving publishers' (and scientific journals) independence from government interference with content.
{"title":"Observations on fraud and scientific integrity in a digital environment","authors":"M. LaFollette","doi":"10.1002/1097-4571(2000)9999:9999%3C::AID-ASI1050%3E3.0.CO;2-C","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/1097-4571(2000)9999:9999%3C::AID-ASI1050%3E3.0.CO;2-C","url":null,"abstract":"The community of specialists in scientific information and communication must begin to give more vigorous attention to its expectations for ethical conduct by authors, reviewers, editors, and publishers in the realm of electronic publishing, and to consider how those expectations may differ from the standards applied in a print‐based environment. The author suggests five areas that deserve special attention: ensuring the accuracy and truthfulness of content; building trust among editors, reviewers, and authors; sustaining a level of civility in electronic forums for scientific and technical debate; protecting the intellectual property of authors and publishers; and preserving publishers' (and scientific journals) independence from government interference with content.","PeriodicalId":50013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology","volume":"4 1","pages":"1334-1337"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91085447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2000-11-01DOI: 10.1002/1097-4571(2000)9999:9999%3C::AID-ASI1033%3E3.0.CO;2-5
A. Sutcliffe, M. Ennis, S. Watkinson
An empirical investigation of information retrieval (IR) using the MEDLINE1 database was carried out to study user behaviour, performance and to investigate the reasons for suboptimal searches. The experimental subjects were drawn from two groups of final year medical students who differed in their knowledge of the search system (i.e., novice and expert users). The subjects carried out four search tasks and their recall and precision performance was recorded. Data was captured on the search strategies used, duration, and logs of submitted queries. Differences were found between the groups for the performance measure of recall in only one of the four experimental tasks. Overall performance was poor. Analysis of strategies, timing data, and query logs showed that there were many different causes for search failure or success. Poor searchers either gave up too quickly, employed few search terms, used only simple queries, or used the wrong search terms. Good searchers persisted longer, used a larger, richer set of terms, constructed more complex queries, and were more diligent in evaluating the retrieved results. However, individual performances were not correlated with all of these factors. Poor performers frequently exhibited several factors of good searcher behaviour and failed for just one reason. Overall end-user searching behaviour is complex and it seems that just one factor can cause poor performance, whereas good performance can result from suboptimal strategies that compensate for some difficulties. The implications of the results for the design of IR interfaces are discussed.
{"title":"Empirical studies of end-user information searching","authors":"A. Sutcliffe, M. Ennis, S. Watkinson","doi":"10.1002/1097-4571(2000)9999:9999%3C::AID-ASI1033%3E3.0.CO;2-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/1097-4571(2000)9999:9999%3C::AID-ASI1033%3E3.0.CO;2-5","url":null,"abstract":"An empirical investigation of information retrieval (IR) using the MEDLINE1 database was carried out to study user behaviour, performance and to investigate the reasons for suboptimal searches. The experimental subjects were drawn from two groups of final year medical students who differed in their knowledge of the search system (i.e., novice and expert users). The subjects carried out four search tasks and their recall and precision performance was recorded. Data was captured on the search strategies used, duration, and logs of submitted queries. Differences were found between the groups for the performance measure of recall in only one of the four experimental tasks. Overall performance was poor. Analysis of strategies, timing data, and query logs showed that there were many different causes for search failure or success. Poor searchers either gave up too quickly, employed few search terms, used only simple queries, or used the wrong search terms. Good searchers persisted longer, used a larger, richer set of terms, constructed more complex queries, and were more diligent in evaluating the retrieved results. However, individual performances were not correlated with all of these factors. Poor performers frequently exhibited several factors of good searcher behaviour and failed for just one reason. Overall end-user searching behaviour is complex and it seems that just one factor can cause poor performance, whereas good performance can result from suboptimal strategies that compensate for some difficulties. The implications of the results for the design of IR interfaces are discussed.","PeriodicalId":50013,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":"1211-1231"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75360061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2000-11-01DOI: 10.1002/1097-4571(2000)9999:9999%3C::AID-ASI1032%3E3.0.CO;2-8
M. Rorvig, S. Fitzpatrick
The method described permits visual analysis of information retrieval experiment results in classic control and treatment group protocols. It is an additional analysis technique for the evaluation of IR procedures that may be conducted within the rich terrain of human visual acuity, supported by two well‐known statistical measures.
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Pub Date : 2000-11-01DOI: 10.1002/1097-4571(2000)9999:9999%3C::AID-ASI1034%3E3.0.CO;2-2
Chaim Zins
This study aimed at reevaluating the Success search strategy. It was conducted by in-depth interviews with 15 professional information searchers in a three-round Delphi-type research. The panelists were asked to critically analyze the rationale of structured searching that forms the theoretical basis of the Success strategy, and evaluate its key principles and guidelines. Success is a strategy for structured searching. Its rationale is based on the argument that information searching is a sequence of interrelated actions aimed at accomplishing the search assignment. Every action determines the course of the searching, and thus affects its final result. The searcher's reasoning emerges as a key to the success of the searching process. Consequently, it is essential to adopt structured search strategies that are based on rational search procedures and techniques. The Success strategy is grounded in the principle of planning the search according to five basic successive phases, namely assignment, resources, words, method, and evaluation, and seven generic guidelines: (1) define the assignment, (2) locate resources, (3) choose search words, (4) select methodology, (5) execute the search, (6) evaluate the results, and (7) if necessary, repeat the search by refining previous decisions.
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