Thoughts about modern retrieval technologies*

Issue title: THE DATABASE BUSINESS: Managing Today – Planning for Tomorrow. Papers from the 30th NFAIS Annual Conference

Guest editors: A.W. Elias

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Salton, Gerard

Affiliations: Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA

Note: [*] This study was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant IRI 87-02735.

Abstract: In recent years, the amount and the variety of available machine-readable data have substantially increased. To cope with the mass of machine-processed data, new technologies have been introduced, such as high density storage devices, and fancy graphic displays useful for information transformation and access. New approaches have also been considered for processing the stored data based on the construction of knowledge bases representing the contents and structure of the information, and the use of expert system techniques to control the user-system interactions. This note provides a brief evaluation of the new information processing technologies, and of the software methods proposed for information manipulation.

DOI: 10.3233/ISU-1988-82-410

Journal: Information Services & Use, vol. 8, no. 2-4, pp. 107-113, 1988