@incollection{Menke/etal:98,
	address = {Heidelberg et al.},
	title = {Access to {Bibliographic} {Data} {Bases} -- {The} {Provider} {Agents} in \{{MeDoc}\}},
	volume = {1392},
	abstract = {The realization of a user-friendly access to local and
distributed information ressources is broadly
acknowledged as a growing need with regard to the
globalization of our informational world. In this
context, three methods for developing interfaces to
information providers are discussed which support the
end-user in finding the information matching his
requirements. The central part of this paper deals with
the approach followed in the general framework of the
MeDoc project. It is realized in the form of so-called
provider agents (PA) developed on the base of an
object-oriented design method. Each PA is assigned to a
special information provider and translates the
form-oriented user query in formation language
expressions of the Internet interface supported by the
provider (which is generally unknown to the user of
MeDoc). One important feature of the provider agents is
their division into a general reusable part (the PA
framework) and a special (provider-specific) part. The
MeDoc approach is complemented by two other methods
providing the user with a natural language interface
(NLI) to dedicated bibliographic data bases (one
representing a library of AI literature and the other
containing the bibliographic information of all
university libraries of the Land North-Rhine
Westphalia). The corresponding NLIs are based on a
functional approach and a logic-oriented approach,
respectively. It is argued that there is only a
comparatively small step left to close the gap between
formal meaning representations of natural language
sentences and the query languages used by the PAs in
the MeDoc project. The long-term goal of our work is
the combination of the techniques developed for the
natural language interfaces to local data bases and the
methods for realizing the access of end-users to
information providers in the Internet.},
	booktitle = {Digital {Libraries} in {Computer} {Science}: {The} {MeDoc} {Approach}},
	publisher = {Springer},
	author = {Menke, D and Gnörlich, C and Helbig, H},
	year = {1998},
	note = {Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
	pages = {51--66},
}

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