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information handler [2 records]

Record 1 2016-03-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Labour and Employment
  • Informatics
DEF

Any individual who works for a living at the tasks of developing or using knowledge.

CONT

One U.S. study says knowledge workers spent 46% of their time attending meetings or exchanging information, 26% processing information, reading and writing documents, and 25% doing miscellaneous tasks.

CONT

The absence of information professionals in Japan.

OBS

Knowledge worker: term coined by Peter Drucker in 1960.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Travail et emploi
  • Informatique
DEF

Cadre ou gestionnaire qui applique ses facultés intellectuelles au traitement, à la gestion, à la recherche et à la communication de l'information.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Trabajo y empleo
  • Informática
DEF

Profesional que aplica sus facultades intelectuales a la adquisición, gestión y comunicación de los conocimientos.

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Record 2 1989-02-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
DEF

A module that mediates the communications among the parser, the underlying expert system, and the natural language generator.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)

Spanish

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