"In his excellent book, Libraries of the Future,
1
J.C.R. Licklider
paints
an elaborate
picture of what libraries may become by the year 2000. He sees
libraries as
being accessible through and augmented by digital computer
programs and evolving into ""procognitive systems,"" or general aids to think-
ing. Many library documents, as well as much text, such as that of computer-
typeset books have already been made computer-readable. But how far have
we come in
devising programs that do this reading automatically? And how
close are we to
systems that can understand users' questions, comments and
commands? These are questions I will attempt to answer in this paper.
The systems I will describe all deal primarily with facts rather than
documents. I assume that facts are inherently more difficult to deal with, and
that documents are a
special case of fact."
Publisher
Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number
Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (12th : 1975)
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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