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- From: bdowning@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Downing)
- Subject: Re: Query systems in HT...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.142326.4901@unixland.natick.ma.us>
- Organization: Unixland Public Access Unix & Think_Tank BBS
- References: <1992Nov22.004435.4173@memstvx1.memst.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 14:23:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov22.004435.4173@memstvx1.memst.edu> langston@memstvx1.memst.edu (Mark C. Langston) writes:
- > 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:
- >
- > 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, ;-)
- >
- >
-
- Can you give an example of this? I know a commercial user of a
- Hyplus-based application who might be able to give you some
- feedback...
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