Free text retrieval systems A review and evaluation   Malcolm Bain, Richard Bland, Lou Burnard, Jon Duke, Colin Edwards, David Lindsey, Nicholas Rossiter and Peter Willett     ISBN 0 947568 42 5 1989 £19.50/US$39.00     Order this book   Recommend to library   Back   Home

CONTENTS   FREE TEXT   The role of free text software The nature of free text Functions of free text software     OVERVIEW OF SYSTEMS CONSIDERED   The evaluation   Interfaces Command language Customised screens and menus Communication with other software     Functions checklist Text structure Retrieval functions Logging Output functions Formatting Control of terminology Updating facilities Input formats Recovery Privacy and security Administration issues System monitoring     General considerations Documentation Vendor Support Costs Installation Hardware     CONCLUSIONS   A. Test Procedures A.1 The test data A.1.1 Mail A.1.2 Shakespeare A.1.3 Homer A.1.4 MARC data A.2 Customised interfaces A.3 Calling into the package A.4 Calling out from the package A.5 Access to dictionary A.6 Indexing A.7 Thesaurus facilities A.7.1 Administrator functions A.7.2 User functions A.8 Term searching A.9 User-specified macros and SDI   B. Reference Sites B.1. BASIS B.2 BRS/Search B.3 STATUS   C. Other Systems   D. Bibliography