Support for the Humanities

Realistic Efforts

• Representation: cataloging, using SGML, entering new vs. old works
• Searching: modular design, some of librarian's functions
• Interfaces: tools, formative and summative evaluations
• Tool support: enhance functionality, start to integrate tools together into highly usable environments.
• User modeling, learning, personalization: longer term research required.
• Hard problems: natural language understanding, word-sense disambiguation, complex agent interactions