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Software for information storage and retrieval tested, evaluated and compared -- indexing and full-text retrieval programs... part 4.

In this article, the fourth in a series on microcomputer software for information storage and retrieval, test results of six indexing and full-text retrieval programs are presented and various properties and qualities of these programs are discussed. The common feature of programs in these categorie...

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Published in:Electronic Library Vol. 10; no. 4; pp. 195 - 209
Main Authors: Sieverts EG, Hofstede M, Groeniger BO
Format: Journal Article
Published: Emerald Publishing Limited 1992 Aug
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          Sieverts EG
          Hofstede M
          Groeniger BO
        affil: Algemene Hogeschool Amsterdam, Faculteit Informatie Communicatie, Herengracht 330, NL-1016 CE Amsterdam, Netherlands
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          Database Management Software
          Full-Text Databases
          CD ROM
          Computerized Literature Searching
          Comparative Studies
          Product Evaluation
          Abstracting and Indexing
      ab: In this article, the fourth in a series on microcomputer software for information storage and retrieval, test results of six indexing and full-text retrieval programs are presented and various properties and qualities of these programs are discussed. The common feature of programs in these categories is that they are primarily meant to retrieve words (or combinations of them) in large text files. To do this they either simply index existing text files in one or more formats (indexing programs), or they store and index them in their own database format (full-text retrieval programs). The programs reviewed in this issue are the indexing programs Ask-It, Texplore and ZY index and the full-text retrieval programs KAware, TextMaster and WordCruncher. All programs run under MS-DOS. In addition ZY index has a Windows and a Unix version and TextMaster is also available for Unix. For each of the six programs almost 100 facts and test results are tabulated. The programs are also discussed individually.
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