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Advice from the Oracle: Really Intelligent Information Retrieval

Artificial Intelligence 2018-01-04 v1 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Physics and Society

Abstract

What is "intelligent" information retrieval? Essentially this is asking what is intelligence, in this article I will attempt to show some of the aspects of human intelligence, as related to information retrieval. I will do this by the device of a semi-imaginary Oracle. Every Observatory has an oracle, someone who is a distinguished scientist, has great administrative responsibilities, acts as mentor to a number of less senior people, and as trusted advisor to even the most accomplished scientists, and knows essentially everyone in the field. In an appendix I will present a brief summary of the Statistical Factor Space method for text indexing and retrieval, and indicate how it will be used in the Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service. 2018 Keywords: Personal Digital Assistant; Supervised Topic Models

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@article{arxiv.1801.00815,
  title  = {Advice from the Oracle: Really Intelligent Information Retrieval},
  author = {Michael J. Kurtz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.00815},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Author copy; published 25 years ago at the beginning of the Astrophysics Data System; 2018 keywords added

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