Kluger.PA@PARC-MAXC.ARPA (03/20/84)
[Forwarded from the SRI-AI bboard by Laws@SRI-AI.]
Richard M. Tong
Advanced Information and Decision Systems
RUBRIC: An Intelligent Aid for Information Retrieval
In this talk I will describe an ongoing research project that is
concerned with developing a computer based aid for information retrieval
from natural language databases. Unlike other attempts to improve upon
Boolean keyword retrieval systems, this research concentrates on
providing an easily used rule-based language for expressing retrieval
concepts. This language draws upon work in production rule systems in AI
and allows the user to construct queries that give better precision and
recall than more traditional forms.
The talk will include a discussion of the main elements in the system
(which is written in LISP and C), the key research issues (including
some comments on the important role that uncertainty plays) and some
man-machine interface questions (in particular, the problem of providing
knowledge elicitation tools).
Thursday, March 22, 1984 4:00 pm
*** Please note the location change ***
Hewlett-Packard
1651 Page Mill Road
Palo Alto, CA
28C Lower Auditorium
Be sure to arrive at the building's lobby on time, so that you may be
escorted to the meeting room