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AN APPLICATION OF LANGUAGE PROCESSING FOR A SEARCH INTERFACE

AN APPLICATION OF LANGUAGE PROCESSING FOR A SEARCH INTERFACE The paper describes techniques developed by Tome Associates to process natural language queries into search statements suitable for transmission to online text database systems. The problems discussed include word identification, the handling of unknown words, the contents and structure of system dictionaries, the use of semantic categories and classification, disambiguation of multimeaning words, stemming and truncation, noun compounds and indications of relationship between search terms. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Documentation Emerald Publishing

AN APPLICATION OF LANGUAGE PROCESSING FOR A SEARCH INTERFACE

VICKERY, BRIAN; VICKERY, ALINA
Journal of Documentation , Volume 48 (3): 21 – Mar 1, 1992
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Emerald Publishing
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0022-0418
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10.1108/eb026897
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The paper describes techniques developed by Tome Associates to process natural language queries into search statements suitable for transmission to online text database systems. The problems discussed include word identification, the handling of unknown words, the contents and structure of system dictionaries, the use of semantic categories and classification, disambiguation of multimeaning words, stemming and truncation, noun compounds and indications of relationship between search terms.

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Published: Mar 1, 1992

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