[115] in Information Retrieval
[Craig A. Summerhill : WAIS II and LQ-Text]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim McGovern)
Sat Nov 7 10:37:55 1992
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 92 10:36:22 EST
From: tjm@MIT.EDU (Tim McGovern)
To: techinfo@MIT.EDU, elibdev@MIT.EDU
For your information...do I have a volunteer to go get the utoronto stuff
and see how it works?
Tim
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From: Craig A. Summerhill <craig@cni.org>
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Subject: WAIS II and LQ-Text
Hello all,
When I was at the EDUCOM conference in Baltimore last week, I had an
opportunity to have lunch with Jim Fullton (University of North Carolina).
Jim and I talked a little bit about the work he has been doing with WAIS.
For those of you who are not aware, Jim had worked to port the original
WAIS server to VMS and did DOS-like clients. More recently, he and Simon
Spiro have been working to bring the WAIS server code into compliance with
the 1992-rev of Z39.50.
Because Jim isn't very impressed with the original WAIS search engine
either, he looked around to find an alternative engine. He found one
that was developed at the University of Toronto. It is called LQ-Text.
Apparently, it is available from utoronto over the network, and it is
in the public domain (or shareware). LQ-Text supports boolean operators,
including proximity operators such as ADJ, WITH and SAME.
Jim has a version of a server using LQ-Text operational and compliant
with the 1992-rev. He doesn't want to disseminate it until it is cleaned
up a bit, but has suggested he might give me a copy to compile on the
Coalition server in case we are interested in looking at it.
Also, Jim is interested in the development of attribute sets for full
text documents, and would like to keep track of what develops in this
group. I've added him to the BRSZ list.
--
Craig A. Summerhill
Systems Coordinator and Program Officer
Coalition for Networked Information
1527 New Hampshire Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
Internet: craig@cni.org
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