TY - JOUR AB - The paper describes techniques developed by Tome Associates to process natural language queries into search statements suitable for transmission to online text database systems. The problems discussed include word identification, the handling of unknown words, the contents and structure of system dictionaries, the use of semantic categories and classification, disambiguation of multiā€meaning words, stemming and truncation, noun compounds and indications of relationship between search terms. VL - 48 IS - 3 SN - 0022-0418 DO - 10.1108/eb026897 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026897 AU - VICKERY BRIAN AU - VICKERY ALINA PY - 1992 Y1 - 1992/01/01 TI - AN APPLICATION OF LANGUAGE PROCESSING FOR A SEARCH INTERFACE T2 - Journal of Documentation PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 255 EP - 275 Y2 - 2024/04/25 ER -