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Information Capture and Access
Pages 12-15

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From page 12...
... Imagine, also, that personal workstations have shank to the size of pocket calculators and that they are equipped win cellular communication. In this situation, ~ pulp out my portable communication workstation and connect to the bus company's database, locate the current position of the bus, and discover that it is currently rounding, the bend on Stewart Avenue.
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From page 13...
... This experiment was actually carried out, in a semiautomatic way, by Jim Davis of Xerox Corporation, although he used art ad hoc technique instead of developing a granlrnar for the document. A word of caution: He top 10mstitutionsby funding had, in myop~n~on, litUeco~Telationto the top 10 institutions as perceived by researchers In the field of computer science.
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From page 14...
... A third type of blank is He blank separating words in a sentence or the double blank following a period at the end of a sentence pronto the start of a new sentence. The fourth type of blank, caned embedded blank space, consists of two or more blanks separating nonblank characters.
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From page 15...
... ConsiderWAlS,atool created by Apple Computer, Dow Jones, Thinking Machines, and Dime and Bradstreet for locating information from wire services and other text sources (Kahle, 1989)
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