IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bla/jamest/v46y1995i1p52-59.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Interactive thesaurus navigation: Intelligence rules OK?

Author

Listed:
  • Susan Jones
  • Mike Gatford
  • Steve Robertson
  • Micheline Hancock‐Beaulieu
  • Judith Secker
  • Steve Walker

Abstract

We discuss whether it is feasible to build intelligence rule‐ or weight‐based algorithms into general‐purpose software for interactive thesaurus navigation. We survey some approaches to the problem reported in the literature, particularly those involving the assignment of “link weights” in a thesaurus network, and point out some problems of both principle and practice. We then describe investigations which entailed logging the behavior of thesaurus users and testing the effect of thesaurus‐based query enhancement in an IR system using term weighting, in an attempt to identify successful strategies to incorporate into automatic procedures. The results cause us to question many of the assumptions made by previous researchers in this area. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Suggested Citation

  • Susan Jones & Mike Gatford & Steve Robertson & Micheline Hancock‐Beaulieu & Judith Secker & Steve Walker, 1995. "Interactive thesaurus navigation: Intelligence rules OK?," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 46(1), pages 52-59, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamest:v:46:y:1995:i:1:p:52-59
    DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199501)46:13.0.CO;2-1
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199501)46:13.0.CO;2-1
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199501)46:13.0.CO;2-1?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Feng, L. & Jeusfeld, M.A. & Hoppenbrouwers, J.J.A.C., 2001. "Towards knowledge-based digital libraries," Other publications TiSEM 5532ccac-2fff-49e3-a754-7, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bla:jamest:v:46:y:1995:i:1:p:52-59. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.asis.org .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.