Life Sciences Program Tasks and Bibliography

This document includes information on all peer reviewed projects funded by the Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences and Applications, Life Sciences Division during fiscal year 1995. Additionally, this inaugural edition of the Task Book includes information for FY 1994 programs. This document will be published annually and made available to scientists in the space life sciences field both as a hard copy and as an interactive Internet web pag

Vocabulary Problem in Internet Resource Discovery

When searching information in a retrieval system, people use a variety of terms to describe their information needs. When the terms used in a query are different from those indexed by the system, users fail to obtain the information they want. This is called the vocabulary problem. This problem has been studied and discussed in information retrieval for decades. Recently Deerwester et. al proposed a new technique based on singular value decomposition and obtained promising results. In this paper, we describe how to apply this technique to Internet resource discovery