Specification by Reformulation: A Paradigm for Building Integrated User Support Environments
Abstract
Specification by reformulation is a general interface paradigm. It is an abstraction of retrieval by reformulation, a paradigm used in previous systems for assisting users in formulating database queries. Specification by reformulation serves as a general foundation upon which domain specific applications can be built. To illustrate its usage, we describe three services built within it: a database retrieval aid, a notecards facility, and an electronic-mail interface to an on-line procurement system. Building systems in this way illustrates the concept of an integrated user support environment - a set of cooperating tools for end users that can be extended by application builders.
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Yen et al. "Specification by Reformulation: A Paradigm for Building Integrated User Support Environments." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1988.Markdown
[Yen et al. "Specification by Reformulation: A Paradigm for Building Integrated User Support Environments." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1988.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/1988/yen1988aaai-specification/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{yen1988aaai-specification,
title = {{Specification by Reformulation: A Paradigm for Building Integrated User Support Environments}},
author = {Yen, John and Neches, Robert and DeBellis, Michael},
booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
year = {1988},
pages = {814-818},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/1988/yen1988aaai-specification/}
}