http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/authors/nigel-ford/ Recent content in Nigel Ford on Ariadne Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Sat, 18 May 1996 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/3/bath/ Sat, 18 May 1996 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/3/bath/ The 1996 Bath meeting raised some interesting questions - some explicit and others less so - like "Do we really need librarians?" And "Is traditional information work such a backwater that it takes 30 years for technology to transfer from the research laboratory into professional practice?" On display - an impressive array of computer-based systems for the retrieval - and analysis - of information. All offer natural language input with best match output - based on statistical techniques pioneered by the late great Gerard Salton.