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A REFERENCE AND REFERRAL SYSTEM USING EXPERT SYSTEM TECHNIQUES
ALINA VICKERY, HELEN BROOKS, BRUCE ROBINSON, BRIAN VICKERYThe issues involved in the construction of an expert system for retrieval are described, together with some of the techniques that have been used in artificial intelligence and…
A THIRD NOTE ON AGEING IN A LIBRARY CIRCULATION MODEL: APPLICATIONS TO FUTURE USE AND RELEGATION
QUENTIN L. BURRELLThe Burrell and Cane mixed Poisson model for library loans is used to predict future use of items in a collection. The model is also used to investigate possible relegation…
AN ONLINE INDEX ENTRY FORMAT BASED ON MULTIPLE SEARCH TERMS
TIMOTHY C. CRAVENA new approach to generating string index entries from concept networks is discussed: terms from multi‐term search specifications are cited near the beginning of the entry, while…
HOW WELL DO WE ACKNOWLEDGE INTELLECTUAL DEBTS?
MANFRED KOCHENAuthors of scientific articles often read a paper that fails to cite their prior work when they feel it should have. A survey of university faculty shows the extent to which such…
TITLES REVISITED
A.B. BUXTONThe earlier work by Buxton and Meadows, reporting the changes in information content of the titles of research papers in eleven different periodicals between 1947 and 1973, has…
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- Prof David Bawden