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Design issues in automatic translation for online information retrieval systems
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| Title: | Design issues in automatic translation for online information retrieval systems |
| Author(s): | Toliver, David E. |
| Subject(s): |
Libraries --Automation
User interfaces (Computer systems) Design Information retrieval |
| Abstract: | One objective of computer intermediary systems is to minimize incidental and accidental differences among the many distinct languages found in online bibliographic retrieval. Three classes of languages are identified: access protocols, retrieval commands/responses, and database structures. Each class has its own characteristic requirements for automatic translation. In developing one intermediary product the Sci-Mate Searcher distinct translation approaches proved most effective for each class: a procedural language for access protocols, customized coding for retrieval commands/responses, and a knowledge-based table for database structures. Despite differences in translation methods, users are presented with a consistent view throughout the product. |
| Issue Date: | 1986 |
| Publisher: | Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Citation Info: | In Lancaster, F.W. (ed). (1986) What is user friendly? : Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing. Urbana, Il: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: 96-107. |
| Series/Report: | Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (23rd : 1986) |
| Genre: | Conference Paper / Presentation |
| Type: | Text |
| Language: | English |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/767 |
| ISBN: | 0-87845-072-6 |
| ISSN: | 0069-4789 |
| Publication Status: | published or submitted for publication |
| Rights Information: | Copyright owned by Copyright 1986 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois |
| Date Available in IDEALS: | 2007-05-23 |
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1986: What is User Friendly?
23rd Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1986). Edited by F.W. Lancaster.
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