14th Information Retrieval Colloquium provides a comprehensive overview of current research work in this important field, as well as indications of future developments. It will be of particular interest to researchers, postgraduate students, and information science professionals.

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14th Information Retrieval Colloquium provides a comprehensive overview of current research work in this important field, as well as indications of future developments. It will be of particular interest to researchers, postgraduate students, and information science professionals.

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A Logical Model of Information Retrieval Based on Situation Theory.- Multilingual MenUSE - A Japanese Front-End for Searching English Language Databases and Vice Versa.- An Evaluation of Concept Translation Through Menu Navigation in the MenUSE Intermediary System.- ISIR: An Integrated System for Information Retrieval.- WING: An Intelligent Multimodal Interface for a MaterialsInformation System.- Dialogue Management in a Pragmatics-Based Natural Language Information System.- Performance Comparisons of Boolean and Ranked Output Retrieval.- Pictorial Information Systems - Prospects and Problems.- Modelling Online Database Systems in an Intelligent Interface.- A Select and Generate Approach to Automatic Abstracting.- Evaluation of Techniques for the Conflation of Modern and Seventeenth Century English Spelling.- Hypermedia Links and Information Retrieval.- Natural Language for Database Retrieval - A Practical Perspective.- Author Index.