Cognitive Engineering Issues in the Design of a Knowledge-Based Information Retrieval System

Abstract

Department of I n d u s t r i a l and Systems E n g i n e e r i n gThe Ohio S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y ABSTRACT EP-X ( E n v i r o n m e n t a l P o l l u t i o n e x p e r t ) i s a p r o t o t y p e e x p e r t s y s t e m t h a t a c t s a s a n e x p e r t s e a r c h i n t e r m e d i a r y f o r a b i b l i o g r a p h i c i n f o r m a t i o n r e t r i e v a l s y s t e m . I t s e a r c h e s f o r documents i n t h e Chemical A b s t r a c t s d a t a b a s e i n t h e domain of e n v i r o n m e n t a l p o l l u t i o n , p r o v i d i n g a n i n t e l l i g e n t human-computer i n t e r f a c e t h a t accommodates a wide v a r i e t y of u s e r backgrounds and i n t e r e s t s .

Integrated Office Information System (IOIS) Summary Report: An Object- Oriented SEM Design/Maintenance Methodology for an Integrated Knowledge Base/ Database

“…Smith, et. a] [8,9] have described a knowledge based search intermediary called EP-X that is designed to facilitate information retrieval from a thesaurus type of system. Documents were represented as frames with a list of title, authors, title, etc.…”