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title: "Researcher: An Experimental Intelligent Information System"
authors:
  - "Michael Lebowitz"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/170"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/0170.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1985
pages: "858-861"
track: "Natural Language"
keywords:
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# Researcher: An Experimental Intelligent Information System

Michael Lebowitz

*Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 858-861.

## Abstract

The development of very powerful intelligent information systems requires the use of many techniques best derived by studying human understanding methods. RESEARCHER is a system that reads, remembers, generalizes from, and answers questions about complex technical texts, patent abstracts in particular. In this paper we discuss three current areas of research involving RESEARCHER -- the generalization of hierarchically structured representations; the use of long-term memory in text processing, specifically in re so lving ambiguity; and the tailoring of answers to questions to the Ievel of expertise of different users.