Natural lang/expert systems/www searching

[Janet Dombrowski]

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At Online World last month a start-up company named Minis was previewing an=
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intelligent search system called DR-LINK that is under development.  The =
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system is being designed to respond to inquiries by asking the user which =
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facets of the question they are interested, which synonyms and related term=
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to include, context of words with multiple meanings, and so on.  Their =
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promotional literature quoted Barbara Quint's (_Searcher_ magazine) =
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preliminary approval.  One of the system designers is a PhD candidate at =
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Syracuse SIS and very knowledgeable.

Unfortunately, the URL I took down for Minis is incorrect and I can't finge=
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the brochure.  Does anyone know more about this company or product?  =



Janet Dombrowski
National Geographic Society Library
jdombrow at ngs.org



On Nov. 12 Nick Tomaiuolo wrote:
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Does any such "Artificial Intelligence" powered engine exist anywhere for =
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purpose?  In Library Reference, in Defense Industry, in Commerical business=
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Again--I don't mean an engine that says "Narrow search by looking for
word in the title?" or the rudimentary type of search strategy, but one tha=
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responds to the particluar query of the user.

Of particular significance would be **WWW** search engines that work =

intelligently-- that is, interact with the user.  Again, Are there any?  =

Have you used them?  Where are they?

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