Knowledge-based search tactics for an intelligent intermediary system

  • Authors:
  • Philip J. Smith;Steven J. Shute;Beb Galdes;Mark H. Chignell

  • Affiliations:
  • Ohio State Univ., Columbus;Ohio State Univ., Columbus;Ohio State Univ., Columbus;Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

Research on the nature of knowledge-based systems for bibliographic information retrieval is summarized. Knowledge-based search tactics are then considered in terms of their role in the functioning of a semantically based search system for bibliographic information retrieval, EP-X. This system uses such tactics to actively assist users in defining or refining their topics of interest. It does so by applying these tactics to a knowledge base describing topics in a particular domain and to a database describing the contents of individual documents in terms of these topics. This paper, then, focuses on the two central concepts behind EP-X: semantically based search and knowledge-based search tactics.