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- From: langston@memstvx1.memst.edu (Mark C. Langston)
- Newsgroups: alt.hypertext
- Subject: Query systems in HT...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.004435.4173@memstvx1.memst.edu>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 00:44:35 -0600
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- Organization: Memphis State University
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- Okay. I have yet to hear of any radical departures from standard HT
- navigation techniques. In the interim, I would be interested in finding
- out the group's opinion on something:
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- How useable/desirable would you find a navigational interface that would
- allow you to form natural language queries through two mouse clicks? (of
- course, such an interface would always allow you to ask any valid question,
- relevant to the item you queried, assuming there was an answer to that
- question.)
- How desirable would such an interface be if it provided high coherence
- between the answer and the question?
-
- Just curious, ;-)
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