A review of new developments in text retrieval systems
Andy Ewers · Journal of Information Science · 1994
This review was undertaken to evaluate the current and planned developments of the leading suppliers of text retrieval software, with the objective of trying to establish trends in the industry. The products evaluated are those from a mini/mainframe background. Theu can be described as fully functional text information management systesms or text database systems and are all multi-user systems. The majority of these products operate an inverted file structure which indexes every word. The review was conducted with senior executives of the suppliers concerned, listed below with their primary products: 1)Information Dimensions: BASISplus; BRS Dataware: BRS/Search; Excalibur Technologies: EFS; Status/IQ: Status/IQ; Verity: TOPIC