S imeni medium, This approach, whleh. ia
links related pieces of text, offersa >
'unigue 'capabilityreaderš can browse
//:through the text collection by follow-
Mi (ing links of interest: Their guest for in-
formation can be as specific or as gen

775 supports wild-card and preval pol šRethey

gueries to help make the pare pe and val
-- more effective. Other commonly consisi j ;
i xt-retrieval product romi, ni
A OE HE k 4 eral as.they wish.«

toa a preterred term for

<Verity:lnc., is one.product.that bridges::
sledi gi dere Hypertext applications reguire that ki
Ge NR ESaa zČa Mo UE zu k someone. with knowledge, of the. do-...«:

; main identify:the location. of the links.
Tbohalijuek that Reduce [E NR STNE :
Mismatched Responses Ma alostusito! GorA htemešio uh :
To Text Gueries (stračtured programiming code, with all
the attendant maintenance problems. -:
The assigning of key words, the t
/ building of topics and any other labor- .
z intensive front-end work reguires a.
v major commitment from an RE
gnitja | (tion. The alternative, inverted-file
(o a to orati renned k | gij oi: | | dexing, can be performed automatical-
ly and may be beneficial when a large
text collection is involved. However,
.this approach reguires that the user
"understand the conceptual categories
'and reatonaicsi ai sdleti in the col:
» lection. k
| Ideally, text: management facilitles.
; ; should understand natural language, /
' However, to date, interpreting the
// meaning of text reguires human inter-
i/vention to supply intuitiye and domain,

will fit well within the parameters of
their search reguest, -::- ko
Today, however, most text applica-
'tjons do not live up to these expecta.
tions. Many employ an indexing tech
:nology that uses inverted lists. This ap-
hrebegii maintains an alphabetic listing
erred to as a dictionary file) of all
ithe words that comprise a'text collec;!

J 1 S i knowledge. :
z ply Boolean logic to' phrase gueries. | .M čno v. |: i3; Next week | will discuss the role CD
However, because the guerjes are not ; ge The above - ROM plays in text management. ;
saline examples might be

found in a medical reference guide.

The concepts in this article are de-. ,-
5 seribed. in a new volume, Text Mora :
( agement, of The.James Martin Re-
ital id biujac — port Series. For more information. |
vocabulary: Users (enje: on this volume, call (617) 639-1958. |
terms into symbolic concepts and relate : ' For information on seminars, con-'.,:
these concepts to each other via a pi tact (in the United States and Cana- ;
 graphical representation that can be '.' : da) Technology Transfer Institute,
browsed and assigned a label. These rep-:: ; 741 104h St., Santa Monica, Calif.... .
resentations, called "topics," are used toe ; 90402 (. 218) 3894-8305. In Europe, :
search criteria and can be combined us-.;;:. contact Savant, 2 New St., Carnforth,
Boolean operations... :;/. k črne 9BX United Kingdom. š
(0524 734 Sobi; bese

technigue known:as proximity search:
€ [ving, which lets the'user specify the:
€ | number of words, sentences or para-

Meyt
' index. itself, Jetting the user gain famil- č
iarity with the words that comprise the:

'precision.in the'retrieyal process.
thesaurus can el: terminology, Hypertext i is jet another text: -manage-

| were done in a Pori database, said
-. Todd Bashuk; technologist for Southwest:
sem Beli Technology Resources Inc., a divi-
'sion of the telephone company in St. Louis!
ODBMS ane which is rurrentiy Ontologic, also in Burlington, Mass., is.
'b according toBob Holmes, com vailable from only a handful of players, tossing its second entry into the ODBMS
Coca Cala ze to tap InfoAllance to ere MA AA kri th o INN unlike, - ring, Its Ontos 2.0 upgrade runs on Sun3, z
nild.a nationwide retail'survey system. !' Southern California, Gas. "Sun.4, SPARCstations, Apollo "and '

"that spans multiple LANS in order to help.;ugel —D
pie f: nee | pROsiaton worksta tions, as well as PCs

NEJA alod re OE NI,
- hand, a new 4GL option for its database,
n padrjt o a Calurenah lar face called Ona 1
s ) jo, which provides access to blocks o£
InfoAlliance, which is the resuli SPC: th firm Pe be, V, preprogrammed code for buttons, menus
reported $10; million, fiveyear develop: |; Object Design toreli and text boxes. Bo! options will be avail
| meni to libe avtlabe or Both DOS, »three m; ci, able in December," ('
podi "Windo by the oje the. i V Pricing for .ObjectStore, rici le doleti
AA ] s z G " mined by. ine number o uses per sle,
4 Pricing l luding SchemaDesigner, -/,. ranges from $2,000 to $9,000./
sl ala TE OEM, looitaim sli and code gen, V Ontologic's Ontos upgrade is free to reg:
200-workstation vesalon.) O nA ; n zane, vailabi ea de
SPC, of. Mountaln." ea can be, | dat A iEON, ze osemii
reached at (415) 9052085 8 SL li sei na "m0