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This course addresses the changes from Boolean/thesaurus searching to non-Boolean/free-text searching. As a special feature this important seminar
will discuss the newest development in the "hot subject area of relevance/feedback and other new commercial search engine capabilities being offered by leading vendors and hosts such as Lexis-Nexis (Freestyle),
West Publishing Co. (WIN) and Dialog (Target). It will also cover software packages such as Personal Librarian, ConQuest, CLARIT, DR-LINK, and the TREC studies which have evaluated the various systems.This seminar
offers a historical perspective of the information retrieval arena. Not many of today's Players understand the events of the last few decades which have led to much of today's perplexity in the field. Particular
emphasis will be placed on the interface problems between databases and users: what special consideration one needs to give to end-user searching and what the hopes and promises of machine-aided indexing and searching.
The seminar will cover the following: The Non-Boolean Picture; Full-Text Searching; Analysis of Commercial non-Boolean Systems; Analysis of Alerting Services such as Individual, Inc., SandPoint/Hoover and Desktop
Data; and the corporate world and competitive intelligence. |
