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'''Lauren B. Doyle''' (1926- ) was a US developer of online retrieval systems. | |||
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== Life == | == Life == | ||
'''Lauren B. Doyle''' (1926- ) developed online retrieval systems and wrote various articles on information science. | |||
== Contributions == | == Contributions == | ||
System Development Corporation; Involved with 2 of earliest online retrieval systems: BOLD and Protosynthex; Spring 1960 worked on SAGE system (Bellardo & Bourne); Wanted a practical system for reading, writing, answering questions in natural English; The result was Protosynthex I which he worked on with Robert Simmons. (Bellardo & Bourne); Research with Borko; Emphasis was between documentation and communication and linguistic research; They consider information science "a true interdisciplinary science involving the efforts of librarians, logicians, engineers, mathematicians, and behavior scientists" (Glynn Harmon). | System Development Corporation; Involved with 2 of earliest online retrieval systems: BOLD and Protosynthex; Spring 1960 worked on SAGE system (Bellardo & Bourne); Wanted a practical system for reading, writing, answering questions in natural English; The result was Protosynthex I which he worked on with Robert Simmons. (Bellardo & Bourne); Research with Borko; Emphasis was between documentation and communication and linguistic research; They consider information science "a true interdisciplinary science involving the efforts of librarians, logicians, engineers, mathematicians, and behavior scientists" (Glynn Harmon). | ||
== | == Publications == | ||
Numerous publications are listed in Google Scholar. [https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Lauren+B.+Doyle%22] | |||
''Sixty ideas in Sixty months''. Santa Monica: System Development Corp., 1964. | *"The microstatistics of text." ''Information Storage and Retrieval'' 1(4): 189-214 (1963). | ||
*"Is Automatic Classification a Reasonable Application of Statistical Analysis of Text?" ''J. ACM'' 12(4): 473-489 (1965). | |||
*"Associated characteristics of words in text." ''Commun. ACM'' 5(4): 223 (1962). | |||
*"Information retrieval." ''Commun. ACM'' 4(4): 195 (1961) | |||
*"Semantic Road Maps for Literature Searchers." ''J. ACM'' 8(4): 553-578 (1961) | |||
*''Information Retrieval and Processing''. Los Angeles: Melville Publishing, 1975. | |||
*"The Changing Horizon of Information Storage and Retrieval." With H. Borko. ''American Behavioral Scientist'' 7, no 10 (June 1964): 3-8. [https://doi.org/10.1177/000276426400701001] | |||
*''Sixty ideas in Sixty months''. Santa Monica: System Development Corp., 1964. | |||
He also wrote an amusing article on the origins of the term "information retrieval: "I think, therefore IR." | He also wrote an amusing article on the origins of the term "information retrieval: "I think, therefore IR." ''ACM SIGIR Forum'' 6, no. 2 (1971): 12-15. [http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1095490&bnc=1] | ||
== Further reading == | |||
== Papers == | == Papers == | ||
See [[System Development Corporation]]''' for some papers relating to his work. | |||
Revision as of 09:59, 14 April 2025
Lauren B. Doyle (1926- ) was a US developer of online retrieval systems.
Life
Lauren B. Doyle (1926- ) developed online retrieval systems and wrote various articles on information science.
Contributions
System Development Corporation; Involved with 2 of earliest online retrieval systems: BOLD and Protosynthex; Spring 1960 worked on SAGE system (Bellardo & Bourne); Wanted a practical system for reading, writing, answering questions in natural English; The result was Protosynthex I which he worked on with Robert Simmons. (Bellardo & Bourne); Research with Borko; Emphasis was between documentation and communication and linguistic research; They consider information science "a true interdisciplinary science involving the efforts of librarians, logicians, engineers, mathematicians, and behavior scientists" (Glynn Harmon).
Publications
Numerous publications are listed in Google Scholar. [1]
- "The microstatistics of text." Information Storage and Retrieval 1(4): 189-214 (1963).
- "Is Automatic Classification a Reasonable Application of Statistical Analysis of Text?" J. ACM 12(4): 473-489 (1965).
- "Associated characteristics of words in text." Commun. ACM 5(4): 223 (1962).
- "Information retrieval." Commun. ACM 4(4): 195 (1961)
- "Semantic Road Maps for Literature Searchers." J. ACM 8(4): 553-578 (1961)
- Information Retrieval and Processing. Los Angeles: Melville Publishing, 1975.
- "The Changing Horizon of Information Storage and Retrieval." With H. Borko. American Behavioral Scientist 7, no 10 (June 1964): 3-8. [2]
- Sixty ideas in Sixty months. Santa Monica: System Development Corp., 1964.
He also wrote an amusing article on the origins of the term "information retrieval: "I think, therefore IR." ACM SIGIR Forum 6, no. 2 (1971): 12-15. [3]
Further reading
Papers
See System Development Corporation for some papers relating to his work.