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In article <aprins.721059885@athena.research.ptt.nl>, 
   aprins@athena.research.ptt.nl (Prins A.) writes:

/ I'm constructing an (information) (text)-retrieval system at the Free 
/ University in Amsterdam the Netherlands (for my PhD). In my preliminary 
/ investigation I have to use a (prototype) text-retrieval system with a 
/ thesaurus.  Does anyone know (or has experience with) a (prototype) 
/ text-retrieval system that uses a thesaurus (in Public domain or as 
/ commercial software).

I'm looking at using such a system as a turbo booster for existing 
information services - there is a short discussion document which
is available by gopher at the following address:

   Name=CFD-5
   Type=0
   Port=5000
   Path=0/number/CFD-5
   Host=hill.lut.ac.uk

Abstract: 
 "Most on-line information systems today offer some searching capabil-
 ity, but this tends to be very primitive - for example, the leading-edge
 Wide Area Information Server (WAIS) system developed by Thinking
 Machines [Kah91] is based on a simple keyword search.
 
 This paper introduces some methods which may be used in providing
 a more powerful search technique based on the automatic identification
 of concepts equivalent to those requested by the user. One method which
 may be of particular interest allows conceptual searches to be carried out
 using almost any existing information system as a back-end."


You might also be interested in the GENIE project, which aims to provide
a support service for research into environmental change in a distributed
systems environment - see

   Name=Genie_Documentation
   Type=1
   Port=70
   Path=1/Projects/Genie_Documentation
   Host=hill.lut.ac.uk

 "Global Environmental Change is one of the major issues facing the future
 of humanity.  We know that the climate is changing and that the
 atmosphere is becoming more polluted, we know that forests are being
 destroyed and that soils are deteriorating while the need for food
 increases as populations continue to grow.  We suspect that most of this
 change is being caused by human activity, though some may be due to long
 term processes over which we have little control.  The key issue is to
 find out how human activity is causing environmental change and the
 impact of that environmental change on peoples and societies."


I would be very interested in getting feedback on the ideas described in
my paper - please e-mail any comments to:  M.T.Hamilton@lut.ac.uk.


Martin

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