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Reference Expert Systems: Foundations in Reference Theory

Parrott, James R.

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Title
Reference Expert Systems: Foundations in Reference Theory
Author(s)
Parrott, James R.
Issue Date
1990
Keyword(s)
  • Libraries --Automation
  • Expert systems (Computer science)
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Library science --Data processing
Abstract
A reference expert system may be considered to be a system with a knowledge base covering various aspects of the reference process in a library setting. Knowledge bases generally consist of several components (such as databases, rule bases, frames, and semantic nets) that interact with an inference engine, a user interface, and each other. This paper will examine progressively more complex knowledge-based systems for reference that can be constructed from components like these, concentrating at first on combinations of databases and rule bases. This examination will lead to a classification of reference expert systems. In Section 3, very simple architectures of a type common in other fields will first be considered. Arguments drawn from reference theory suggest that these simple architectures are appropriate primarily in dealing with directional reference transactions. In Sections 4 and 5, reference theory will be used to develop two additional architectures more appropriate to other reference transactions, such as ready-reference transactions. The classification of reference expert systems will be completed in Section 6 by examining further reference theory and then using it to develop variants on the three basic types. Section 7.1 will discuss briefly the use of reference knowledge bases for computer-assisted instruction. Section 7.2 will consider deep reference knowledge. The paper will conclude with some prognostications about future developments.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (27th : 1990)
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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Copyright owned by Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. 1990.

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1990: Artificial intelligence and expert systems : will they change the library? PRIMARY
27th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing. Edited by F.W. Lancaster and Linda C. Smith