In this paper we report progress on the development of ALLOY, a system that simplifies automatic document indexing and retrieval by combining techniques from several different approaches: expert, linguistic and statistical. The system is being designed to allow a panel of experts to create an ALLOY system for a given field by providing the necessary input that ALLOY needs to automatically index documents and to set up a convenient user interface. The input provided by the experts includes a hierarchy of concepts and an expert dictionary. The amount of information that the panel must provide for given field is considerably less than the amount required to build a complete thesaurus or knowledge base about that field.

Article Free Access Share on COREL: a conceptual retrieval system Authors: M. Kathryn Di Benigno JAYCOR, c/o Naval Research Laboratory, NOARAI - Code 7510, Washington, D.C. and Computer Science Department, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA JAYCOR, c/o Naval Research Laboratory, NOARAI - Code 7510, Washington, D.C. and Computer Science Department, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LAView Profile , George R. Cross Computer Science Department, Washington State University, Pullman, WA Computer Science Department, Washington State University, Pullman, WAView Profile , Cary G. de Bessonet Law and AI Project, Louisiana State Law Institute, LSU Law Center, University Station, Baton Rouge, LA Law and AI Project, Louisiana State Law Institute, LSU Law Center, University Station, Baton Rouge, LAView Profile Authors Info & Claims SIGIR '86: Proceedings of the 9th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrievalSeptember 1986 Pages 144–148https://doi.org/10.1145/253168.253199Published:01 September 1986Publication History 6citation265DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations6Total Downloads265Last 12 Months12Last 6 weeks1 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteeReaderPDF