IRS13 Appendix B appendix Harvard University Gerard Salton Use, reproduction, or publication, in whole or in part, is permitted for any purpose of the United States Government. 13-2 Original Query Modified Query QA5 What special training will QA5 What special training will ordinary researchers and ordinary researchers and businessmen need for proper businessmen need for proper information management and information management and unobstructed use of information unobstructed use of infor- retrieval systems. What pro- mation retrieval systems. blems are they likely to en- What problems are they counter. likely to encounter. Researchers, researchers, businessmen, businessmen QA6 What possibilities are there for verbal communication be- tween computers and humans, that is, communication via the spoken word. QA7 Describe presently working and QA7 Describe presently working planned systems for publishing and planned systems for pub- and printing original papers lishing and printing original by computer, and then saving papers by computer, and then the byproduct. Articles coded saving the byproduct. Articles in data-processing form, for coded in data processing form, further use in retrieval. for further use in retrieval. QA8 Describe information retrieval QA8 Describe information retrieval and indexing in other lan- and indexing in foreign lan- guages. What bearing does it guages. What bearing does it have on the science in general. have on the science in general. QA9 What possibilities are there QA9 What possibilities are there for automatic grammatical and for automatic grammatical and contextual analysis of articles contextual analysis of arti- for inclusion in an informatic des for inclusion in an in- retrieval system. formation retrieval system. Grammatical, grammatical, con- textual, contextual. QAlO The use of abstract mathematics in information retrieval, e.g. group theory. QAll What is the need for infor- mation consolidation, eval- uation, and retrieval in scientific research.