Glossary of Terms
Following are some terms and definitions / explanations. More will be
added. Definitions will be supplied.
- Boolean queries
- defn
- CD-DA
- defn
- CD-ROM
- defn
- clustering
- defn
- CODER
- COmposite Document Expert/extended/effective Retrieval - a system developed
in the 1980's at Virginia Tech to explore distributed expert-based information
systems technology
- controlled vocabulary
- defn
- CSCW
- defn
- digital library
- defn
- digital tree
- defn
- distance function
- a function of 2 variables satisfying 3 properties (see text chapter 2),
often thought of in metric spaces, most commonly involving Euclidean space
and so viewed as Euclidean distance
- document
- defn
- E measure
- defn
- Englebart
- defn
- Envision
- defn
- exhaustivity
- defn
- faceted classification
- defn
- flat file
- defn
- FSA (finite state automata)
- defn
- filtering
- defn
- Guide
- defn
- hashing
- defn
- HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
- defn
- HTML+ (HyperText Markup Language - extended)
- defn
- HyperCard
- defn
- hypermedia
- defn
- hypertext
- defn
- Hypertext Compendium
- defn
- Hypertext on Hypertext
- defn
- HyTime
- defn
- indexing
- defn
- indexing language
- defn
- IDF (inverse document frequency)
- defn
- INQUERY
- INQUERY Information Retrieval System (U. Mass. Amherst)
- inverted file
- defn
- JPEG
- defn
- KMS
- defn
- Licklider
- defn
- MARC
- defn
- MARIAN
- defn
- MIME
- MIME, the Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions, is a specification
(i.e., RFC1521 and
RFC1522)
that offers a way to interchange text in languages with different
character sets, and multi-media e-mail among many different
computer systems that use Internet mail standards.
MIME FAQs
- MJPEG
- defn
- Mosaic
- defn
- MPEG
- Moving Picture Expert Group --- digital video standard
- natural language
- defn
- natural language text-search
- defn
- Nelson
- defn
- netlib
- defn
- NII
- defn
- NREN
- defn
- NSFNET
- defn
- paperless society
- defn
- PAT
- defn
- Patricia tree
- defn
- plasticity
- defn
- precision
- defn
- query
- defn
- ranking
- defn
- recall
- defn
- regular expression
- defn
- relevance judgment
- defn
- search tree
- defn
- SGML
- Standard Generalized Markup Language, an international standard
for describing any type of document, ISO 8879
- signature file
- defn
- similarity measure
- defn
- SMART
- defn
- specificity
- defn
- stemming (suffix stripping)
- defn
- stop word list
- defn
- superimposed coding
- defn
- term
- defn
- term broadening
- defn
- term narrowing
- defn
- term weighting
- defn
- TF (term frequency)
- defn
- thesaurus
- defn
- trie
- defn
- truncation
- defn
- TULIP
- The University Licensing Program --- Elsevier, 40 bitmap journals on
materials
- volatility
- defn
- WAIS
- defn
- WWW
- defn
- Z39.50
- Library of Congress Page for Z39.50