Examines answer selection within the framework of QUEST, a psychological model of question answering that specifies how knowledge structures are searched during question answering. Examines whether both "legal" and "illegal" answers were activated during the search. Finds support for QUEST's arc-search procedures associated…

Detailed analyses are made of the concepts of window (seemingly deep spatial renderings) and frame (flatter, more technique-conscious structures) as they apply to a wide variety of visual media and communicative purposes. Special cases of each of these are detailed, along with their applications in cinema history to a range of realist, formalist,…

Discusses impact of three selected command language facilities (positional or free text operations, crossfile searching, term frequency analysis--ZOOM) on the man-system interface in relation to operational online information retrieval (IR). A cognitive IR model, searchers' knowledge structures, and searching with different types of command…