RESEARCHER: an experimental intelligent information system

  • Authors:
  • Michael Lebowitz

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY

  • Venue:
  • IJCAI'85 Proceedings of the 9th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 1985

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Abstract

The development of very powerful intelligent information systems requires the use of many techniques best derived by studying human understanding methods. RESEARCHER is a system that reads, remembers, generalizes from, and answers questions about complex technical texts, patent abstracts in particular. In this paper we discuss three current areas of research involving RESEARCHER - the generalization of hierarchically structured representations; the use of long-term memory in text processing, specifically in resolving ambiguity; and the tailoring of answers to questions to the level of expertise of different users.