[Sigia-l] RE: first principals

[Anne Hjortshoj]

Not a library scientist, but I believe they are two perspectives on the same
task. The computer science view isn't concerned with the user's view of the
data, but concentrates on back-end processes.

The same term is also used in library science, I think.

-Anne

p.s. see
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/020139829X/ref%3Dbr%5Flf%5Fw%5Fh%5F
%5F8/026-6437479-4108460 for a book on this topic.

p.p.s. My husband is a computer science guy concentrating on IR stuff. He
runs into library science people all the time at conferences.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jesse James Garrett" <jjg at jjg.net>
To: "SIGIA" <sigia-l at asis.org>
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] RE: first principals


> Anne Hjortshoj wrote:
> > Just a note - IR (Information Retrieval) is an area of computer science
> > dealing with natural language processing. Not to get bogged down in
> > semantics, and not to suggest that it can't also be used in the field of
IA
> > ... just wanted to point out that the term is already in use in another
> > field.
>
> This seems (to my untrained eye) different from the sense in which this
> term is applied by library science. Perhaps one of our resident
> librarians can clarify the distinction between lib-sci IR and comp-sci IR?
>
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