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Publications by Michael L. Mauldin (bibliography)

1991

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Mauldin, Michael L. (1991): Retrieval Performance in FERRET: A Conceptual Information Retrieval System. In: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval 1991. pp. 347-355.

“FERRET is a full text, conceptual information retrieval system that uses a partial understanding of its texts to provide greater precision and recall performance than keyword search techniques. It uses a machine-readable dictionary to augment its lexical knowledge and a variant of genetic learning to extend its script database. Comparison of FERRET's retrieval performance on a collection of 1065 astronomy texts using 22 sample user queries with a standard boolean keyword query system showed that precision increased from 35 to 48 percent, and recall more than doubled, from 19.4 to 52.4 percent. This paper describes the FERRET system's architecture, parsing and matching abilities, and focuses on the use of the Webster's Seventh dictionary to increase the system's lexical coverage.”

1989

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McKinley, Ellen K., Mauldin, Michael L. and Roth, Emilie M. (1989): An Expert "Critiquer" for Propulsion Gear Design: A Case Study in Intelligent Decision Support. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 33rd Annual Meeting 1989. pp. 404-407.

“This paper describes an "intelligent" designer's aid that was developed to support the design of marine propulsion gears. Key elements of the system include: conversion of gear design formulas from a procedural to a declarative form to facilitate inspection; a direct-manipulation interface; and encoding of "expert" design constraint knowledge. The case study demonstrates that delivering "expert knowledge" is often only a small element of an "intelligent" support system, and provides a concrete illustration of the importance of a cognitive task analysis in defining the elements of an effective support system. This design solution should have applicability to other engineering design tasks.”

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