Testing of a Natural Language Retrieval System for a Full Text Knowledge Base.

Bernstein, Lionel M.; Williamson, Robert E.

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Publication Date: 1984

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Testing of a Natural Language Retrieval System for a Full Text Knowledge Base.

Bernstein, Lionel M.; Williamson, Robert E.

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v35 n4 p235-47 Jul 1984

The Hepatitis Knowledge Base (text of prototype information system) was used for modifying and testing "A Navigator of Natural Language Organized (Textual) Data" (ANNOD), a retrieval system which combines probabilistic, linguistic, and empirical means to rank individual paragraphs of full text for similarity to natural language queries proposed by users. (EJS)

Descriptors: Algorithms, Databases, Graphs, Information Retrieval, Information Systems, Models, Online Systems, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Search Strategies, Tables (Data)

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