1973 Proceeding- Editor:
- Richard E. Nance,
- General Chair:
- Margaret R. Fox,
- Publications Chair:
- Robert R. Korfhage
The SIGPLAN-SIGIR Interface Meeting, cosponsored by the Institute for Computer Sciences and Technology, was held on November 4-6, 1973. The Meeting was attended by over 170 persons, and three invited and eight contributed papers were presented. The invited paper by Susan Artandi, who was unable to attend the meeting, and the contributed paper by Carolyn J. Crouch, who could not attend because of illness, are included in this <u>Proceedings</u>. Also included is a brief information question and answer summary of the Workshop on the Evaluation of On-Line Interactive Retrieval Systems, conducted at Stanford University in April, 1973. Thomas L. Martin presented the background description of the Workshop and explained the summary.Conceived as an interface meeting where professionals in the areas of programming languages and information retrieval would seek to recognize common problems and to understand their different problems, the keyword for the Meeting organization was <u>interaction</u>. To promote interaction, a rather unusual format was adopted.(1) beginning with the Welcome, opening remarks, and the first invited paper on Sunday night provided an early opportunity for personal introductions;(2) each presentation of 20 minutes was followed by a 15 minute question period (denoted by QUESTIONS following the paper);(3) individual simultaneous 30 minute discussion sessions (denoted by DISCUSSION SESSION following the paper) were held whereby participants and the authors could engage in more lengthy, detailed discussion;(4) a "Birds of a Feather" session held on Monday night permitted informal treatment of topics arising during the earlier sessions; and(5) attendees presenting a brief abstract by 11:00 p.m. on Monday were allotted 10 minute discussion periods in an interactive discussion session held on Tuesday afternoon (these are included under INTERACTIVE DISCUSSION SESSION).
A translating computer interface for a network of heterogeneous interactive information retrieval systems
The need for a network of heterogeneous interactive bibliographic information retrieval systems is projected from the facts of wide acceptance and growing demand for these systems and the limitations of their use caused by limited online data base size. ...
Specifying queries as relational expressions
SQUARE (<u>S</u>pecifying <u>Q</u>ueries <u>A</u>s <u>R</u>elational <u>E</u>xpressions) is a set oriented data sublanguage for expressing queries (access, modification, insertion, and deletion) to a data base consisting of a collection of time-varying ...
On the construction of effective vocabularies for information retrieval
Natural language query formulations exhibit advantages over artificial language statements since they permit the user to approach the retrieval environment without prior training and without using intermediaries. To obtain adequate retrieval output, it ...
Information retrieval and the query language
This paper addresses itself to the information retrieval problem of a manager within an organization. We feel that the approach taken in specifying such a system is sufficiently general to be suitable for application to other system specifications. It ...
FOL: a language for implementing file organizations for information storage and retrieval systems
FOL is a language for implementing file organizations. It is implemented in LPL, a list processing language that is an extension of PL/1. FOL presents the user with a convenient means for declaring the structure of records in a file. Either tree ...
Retrieval operations and data representations in a context-addressed disc system
This paper attempts to demonstrate that simple expansion of the processing capabilities of fixed disc read and write heads can avoid the multilevel mappings from high-level retrieval language to machine language and from user oriented data ...