A Direct Manipulation Interface for Boolean Information Retrieval via Natural Language Query.

Peter G. Anick, Jeffrey D. Brennan, Rex A. Flynn, David R. Hanssen, Bryan Alvey, Jeffrey M. Robbins: A Direct Manipulation Interface for Boolean Information Retrieval via Natural Language Query. SIGIR 1990: 135-150

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/sigir/AnickBFHAR90,
  author    = {Peter G. Anick and
               Jeffrey D. Brennan and
               Rex A. Flynn and
               David R. Hanssen and
               Bryan Alvey and
               Jeffrey M. Robbins},
  editor    = {Jean-Luc Vidick},
  title     = {A Direct Manipulation Interface for Boolean Information Retrieval
               via Natural Language Query},
  booktitle = {SIGIR'90, 13th International Conference on Research and Development
               in Information Retrieval, Brussels, Belgium, 5-7 September 1990,
               Proceedings},
  publisher = {ACM},
  year      = {1990},
  isbn      = {0-89791-408-2},
  pages     = {135-150},
  ee        = {db/conf/sigir/AnickBFHAR90.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/sigir/90},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

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Abstract

This paper describes the design of a direct manipulation user interface for Boolean information retrieval. Intended to overcome the difficulties of manipulating explicit Boolean queries as well as the "black box" drawbacks of so-called natural language query systems, the interface presents a two-dimensional graphical representation of a user's natural language query which not only exposes heuristic query transformations performed by the system, but also supports query reformulation by the user via direct manipulation of the representation. The paper illustrates the operation of the interface as implemented in the AI-STARS full-text information retrieval system.

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Jean-Luc Vidick (Ed.): SIGIR'90, 13th International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Brussels, Belgium, 5-7 September 1990, Proceedings. ACM 1990, ISBN 0-89791-408-2
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Shih-Hao Li, Peter B. Danzig: Boolean Similarity Measures for Resource Discovery. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 9(6): 863-876(1997)

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