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  Yves Chiaramella (Ed.): SIGIR'88, Proceedings of the 11th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Grenoble, France, June 13-15, 1988. ACM 1988 ISBN 2-7061-0309-4

SIGIR Award

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  Karen Sparck Jones: A Look Back and A Look Forward. 13-29

Natural Language Processing (1)

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  Alan F. Smeaton, C. J. van Rijsbergen: Experiment on Incorporation Syntactic Processing of User Queries into a Document Retrieval Strategy. 31-51
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  Susan Bonzi, Elizabeth D. Liddy: The Use of Anaphoric Resolution for Document Description in Information Retrieval. 53-66

Natural Language Processing (2)

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  Georges Antoniadis, Genevieve Lallich-Boidin, Yolla Polity, Jacques Rouault: A French Text Recognition Model for Information Retrieval System. 67-84
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  Paul S. Jacobs, Lisa F. Rau: Natural Language Techniques for Intelligent Information Retrieval. 85-99

Natural Language Processing (3)

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  Jean Véronis: Correction of Phonographic Errors in Natural Language Interfaces. 101-115
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  B. Pevzner: Precedental Data Bases: How and Why They are Worked Out and Used. 117-125

Cognitive Models

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  Donald Owen Case: How Do the Experts Do It? The Use of Ethnographic Methods as an Aid to Understanding the Cognitive Processing and Retrieval of Large Bodies of Text. 127-133
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  Nicholas J. Belkin: On the Nature and Function of Explanation in Intelligent Information Retrieval. 135-145

Parallel Distributed Processes

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  Gerard Salton, Chris Buckley: On the Use of Spreading Activation Methods in Automatic Information Retrieval. 147-160
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  Ronald J. Brachman, Deborah L. McGuinness: Knowledge Representation, Connectionism, and Conceptual Retrieval. 161-174

Applications (1)

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  Hassan Aït-Kaci, Roger Nasr, Jungyun Seo: BABEL: A Base for an Experimental Library. 175-190
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  Leslie P. Jones, Cary deBessonet, Sukhmay Kundu: ALLOY: An Amalgamation of Expert, Linguistic and Statistical Indexing Methods. 191-199

Quantitative Models (1)

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  Clement T. Yu, Hirotaka Mizuno: Two Learning Schemes in Information Retrieval. 201-218
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  S. K. Michael Wong, Yiyu Yao, Peter Bollmann: Linear Structure in Information Retrieval. 219-232
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  Fusako Hirabayashi, Hiroshi Matoba, Yutaka Kasahara: Information Retrieval using Impression of Documents as a Clue. 233-244

Quantitative Models (2)

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  Peter Bollmann, Vijay V. Raghavan: A Utility-Theoretic Analysis of Expected Search Length. 245-256
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  Norbert Fuhr, Hubert Hüther: Optimum Probability Estimation Based on Expectations. 257-273

Thesaural Models

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  H. P. Giger: Concept Based Retrieval in Classical IR Systems. 275-289
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  Edward A. Fox, Gary L. Nunn, Whay C. Lee: Coefficients for Combining Concept Classes in a Collection. 291-307
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  Carolyn J. Crouch: A Cluster-Based Approach to Thesaurus Construction. 309-320

Applications (2)

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  Donna Harman: Towards Interactive Query Expansion. 321-331
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  Peter Biebricher, Norbert Fuhr, Gerhard Lustig, Michael Schwantner, Gerhard Knorz: The Automatic Indexing System AIR/PHYS -- From Research to Application. 333-342

Interfaces (1)

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  Andre J. Kok, A. M. Botman: Retrieval Based on User Behaviour. 343-357
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  Patricia Simpson: Query Processing in a Heterogeneous Retrieval Network. 359-370
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  Jean Tague, Ryan Schultz: Some Measures and Procedures for Evaluation of the User Interface in an Information Retrieval System. 371-385

Interfaces (2)

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  Giorgio Brajnik, Giovanni Guida, Carlo Tasso: IR-NLI II: Applying Man-Machine Interaction and Artificial Intelligence Concepts to Information Retrieval. 387-399
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  F. N. Teskey: Intelligent Support for Interface Systems. 401-415

Data Bases

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  Rubén González-Rubio, Michel Couprie: A Parallel Multiprocessor Machine Dedicated to Relational and Deductive Databases. 417-431
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  Patrick Bosc, M. Galibourg: Flexible Selection among Objects: A Framework Based on Fuzzy Sets. 433-449
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  Christophe Damier, Bruno Defude: The Document Management Component of a Multimedia Data Model. 451-464

Artificial Intelligence (1)

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  George W. Furnas, Scott C. Deerwester, Susan T. Dumais, Thomas K. Landauer, Richard A. Harshman, Lynn A. Streeter, Karen E. Lochbaum: Information Retrieval using a Singular Value Decomposition Model of Latent Semantic Structure. 465-480
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  W. Bruce Croft, T. J. Lucia, Paul R. Cohen: Retrieving Documents by Plausible Inference: A Preliminary Study. 481-494

Logical Models

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  Jian-Yun Nie: An Outline of a General Model for Information Retrieval Systems. 495-506
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  Sylvie Laine, Omar Larouk, Isabelle Vidalenc: French Textual Information Systems: The Contribution of Extensional and Intensional Logics. 507-518
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  Peter Schäuble: An Information Structure Dealing with Term Dependence and Polysemy. 519-533

Artificial Intelligence (2)

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  Christine Barthes, Pierre Glize: Planning in an Expert System for Automated Information Retrieval. 535-550
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  Gian Piero Zarri: Conceptual Representation for Knowledge Bases and "Intelligent" Information Retrieval Systems. 551-565

Set Oriented Models

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  Padmini Das-Gupta: Rough Sets and Information Retrieval. 567-581
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  Abraham Bookstein: Set Oriented Retrieval. 583-596

Implementation Techniques

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  Yaacov Choueka, Aviezri S. Fraenkel, Shmuel T. Klein: Compression of Concordances in Full-Text Retrieval Systems. 597-612
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  Yan H. Ng, Silvano P. V. Barros: Activity Memory for Text Information Retrieval. 613-627
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  Claudia Jimenez Guarin: Access by Contents of Documents in an Office Information System. 629-644

Applications (3)

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  Robert H. Ledwith: Development of a Large, Concept-Oriented Database for Information Retrieval. 651-661
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  Eve Wilson: Integrated Information Retrieval for Law in a Hypertext Environment. 663-677