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ALLOY: an amalgamation of expert, linguistic and statistical indexing methods

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L. P. Jones,

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SIGIR '88: Proceedings of the 11th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval

Pages 191 - 199

https://doi.org/10.1145/62437.62450

Published: 01 May 1988 Publication History

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In this paper we report progress on the development of ALLOY, a system that simplifies automatic document indexing and retrieval by combining techniques from several different approaches: expert, linguistic and statistical. The system is being designed to allow a panel of experts to create an ALLOY system for a given field by providing the necessary input that ALLOY needs to automatically index documents and to set up a convenient user interface. The input provided by the experts includes a hierarchy of concepts and an expert dictionary. The amount of information that the panel must provide for given field is considerably less than the amount required to build a complete thesaurus or knowledge base about that field.

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de Silva Garza AFranzoni Velázquez AMorales V(2010)Promoting productivity in manufacturing companies in developing countries: An information system for managing and querying knowledge bases in the automotive industry in MexicoInformation Technology for Development10.1002/itdj.2007313:3(253-268)Online publication date: 3-Mar-2010
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Jones LGassie ERadhakrishnan S(1989)PORTREP: A portable repeated string finderSoftware—Practice & Experience10.1002/spe.438019010719:1(63-77)Online publication date: 1-Jan-1989
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1002/spe.4380190107

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ALLOY: an amalgamation of expert, linguistic and statistical indexing methods
1. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
    1. Document representation
    2. Search engine architectures and scalability
      1. Search engine indexing
  2. Information systems applications
    1. Decision support systems
      1. Expert systems

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de Silva Garza AFranzoni Velázquez AMorales V(2010)Promoting productivity in manufacturing companies in developing countries: An information system for managing and querying knowledge bases in the automotive industry in MexicoInformation Technology for Development10.1002/itdj.2007313:3(253-268)Online publication date: 3-Mar-2010
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Jones LGassie ERadhakrishnan S(1989)PORTREP: A portable repeated string finderSoftware—Practice & Experience10.1002/spe.438019010719:1(63-77)Online publication date: 1-Jan-1989
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1002/spe.4380190107

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