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Pollitt, A.S.; Ellis, G.P.; Hosch, I.: Improving search quality using thesauri for query specification and the presentation of search results (1994)
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- Abstract
- This paper presents a description and initial results of an evaluation of EuroMenUSE for the MAC, a system which offers an alternative mode of access to EPOQUE, the document database of the European Parliament. Subjects with a professional interest in European Parliament business, but with no prior knowledge of information retrieval systems, were able to search EPOQUE using EuroMenUSE for the Mac. These end-users achieved better retrieval results than similar subjects using the current Guided Search mode in use at the Parliament. They also performed better than subjects knowledgeable in information retrieval, but who had less subject knowledge, using the SIMBAD Common Command Language interface, the mode of access used by professional documentalists in the Parliament and other European Union Institutions
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Pollitt, A.S.; Ellis, G.P.; Smith, M.P.; Gregory, M.R.; Li, C.S.; Zangenberg, H.: ¬A common query interface for multilingual document retrieval from databases of the European Community Institutions (1993)
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- Abstract
- Presents EuroMenUSE, a PC-based front-end system developed to improve access to EPOQUE, the major document database of the European Parliament. EuroMenUSEe is an exemplar and the first commercial product to result from the application of the Multilingual MenUSE software shell; in this system it uses the EUROVOC thesaurus. This Common Query interface replaces the Common command Language and provides a more effectve way for end-users to access document databases
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Pollitt, A.S.; Ellis, G.P.; Smith, M.P.; Li, C.S.: HIBROWSE: adding the power of relational databases to the traditional IR architecture : the future for Graphic User Interfaces (1994)
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- Abstract
- This paper describes the coming together of two independent programmes developing interfaces which improves access to databases. MenUSE - Menu-based User Search Engine - has been developed to search bibliographic databases whilst HIBROWSE - High Resolution Interface for Database Specific BROWsing and SEarching - is a front-end for searching information stored on structured relational database management systems. Combining the 2 approaches affords the user much greater access capabilities than is possible using traditional retrieval systems. The implications of this are explored in the context of EPOQUE (the European Parliament Online QUEry system) and INSPEC
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Pollitt, A.S.; Treglown, M.; Smith, A.P.; Braekevelt, P.A.J.; Ellis, G.P.; Finlay, J.E.; Wade, S.J.: Empowering users for improved database access and analysis through the application of knowledge structure views, progressive refinement techniques and a design approach driven by usability (1996)
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- Abstract
- An approach to accessing databases, which makes extensive use of structured thesaurus views for presenting and searching a large bibliographic database through progressive refinement, is being investigated in a research project which is seeking to apply usability criteria as the determinant for interface design. It aims to investigate measurements of retrieval performance in an application of graphical user interface techniques using multi-windowed layered attribute value aggregation, including those provided by a structured thesaurus, to access bibliographic databases. This paper reports on the progress made in the first year of the project of the application of usability methodologies, the revision of a preliminray design and the resulting prototype development. Implications for more widespread applications are discussed
