Pennants for Descriptors
This work addresses a specific problem in online searching and browsing for users in information retrieval, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing theories without clear broad impact.
The paper tackles the problem of displaying descriptors across literatures by introducing a new technique called pennants, which are algorithmic predictions based on relevance theory from linguistic pragmatics.
We present a new technique (called pennants) for displaying the descriptors related to a descriptor across literatures, rather in a thesaurus. It has definite implications for online searching and browsing. Pennants, named for the flag they resemble, are a form of algorithmic prediction. Their cognitive base is in relevance theory (RT) from linguistic pragmatics (Sperber & Wilson 1995).