Questions for Form B)

  1. Which is better: a) having a software designer think of n different names for something, or b) having n different people each think of a new name for that thing? Explain briefly why. Explain briefly how this relates to searching by one person vs. having different people search for the same thing.

  2. Do IR systems get smarter as they process more documents? Please explain briefly if so, or why not, and give reasons and justification regarding how you think they should behave.

  3. Would it be easy to build up memory hierarchies for all of the sciences? What problems might arise? How big an effort would this be? Please explain briefly.

  4. How can one obtain semi-structured messages? How does creating them relate to authors marking up texts? Please explain briefly.

  5. If you were to construct a set of message templates that expanded upon the set used for the Information Lens, how would you find what templates to add? How many might be needed? Explain briefly.


fox@cs.vt.edu
Tue Aug 30 03:46:35 EDT 1994