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A DIRECT APPROACH TO INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

Table of Contents

   WHAT
   WHY
   HOW
1. INTRODUCTION
2. THE LINE OF ATTACK
3. SYSTEMS VS. USERS
   3.1 Discrimination
   3.2 Prediction
4. DOCUMENTS VS. SURROGATES
5. THE THEORY OF INTERPRETATION
   5.1 Denotation and Connotation
   5.2 The Theory of Ogden and Richards
   5.3 Implications for Information Retrieval
6. PROPOSAL FOR FILE ORGANIZATION
   6.1 Incentives
   6.2 Extracts as Indexing Sources
   6.3 Extracts as Review Sources
7. CONCLUSION
8. REFERENCES
   POSTSCRIPT

Contents

UTILITARIANSIM

NEOENCYCLOPEDISM

Unicode

• Joe Becker (Unicode)

METASCIENTISM

HOLISM

PEOPLE

• User:David Goodman
• Seymour Lubetzky, List of famous librarians
• Michael Gorman (librarian)
• Michael Lesk, Eric Schmidt (lex)
• Michael Moritz
• George Dyson, The Universal Library at Edge The Third Culture
• Kenneth Brown, Lexington Institute, Samizdat (book)
• Robert E. Horn, Information mapping, Structured writing
• Karl Deutsch, Wicked problem
• Quincy Wright "called for a World Intelligence Center in the 1950's, using only open sources of information."

Notes

• James Surowieki (2005). The Wisdom of Crowds. Anchor.
• Howard Rheingold (2003). Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution. Basic Books.
• Howard Bloom (2000). Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century. John Wiley & Son. Prologue Amazon
• Pierre Levy (1997). Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace. Basic Books.