IR Tools, Software and Systems
Alphabetically ordered glossary
- Author/Editor
- SGML structure-editor on Mac, vtaix
- Boolean operations
- set operations using bit vectors or hashing
- DVI
- Digital Video Interactive --- shown in Multimedia demonstrations
- ghostview
- PostScript viewer
- GOAL
- Graph Object Access Language --- for ad hoc queries against LEND information graphs
- gopher
- Information access by menus mapped to global file system
- Hypertext Compendium
- Collection of most of early publications on hypertext
- ICA
- Integrated Chameleon Architecture --- graphical interface for grammar development, translator creation and semi-automatic operation
- JPEG compress, decompress
- Routines to convert images
- KMS
- Fast hypertext system on video for Hypertext Compendium, using frames
- LEND
- Large External object-oriented Network Database, using hashing, used in MARIAN
- MARIAN
- Multiple Access Retrieval of Information with ANnotations --- OPAC server, client, monitor
- Mosaic
- NCSA tool for various platforms for WWW and connecting to WAIS, gopher, etc.
- MPEG play
- U. Ca. Berkeley code for decoding and presenting MPEG video
- Orienteering, cropping
- Surrogate travel in geography, field with compass, image preparation
- PAT / LECTOR / DCIS front-end
- PAT trees and arrays, SGML display/rendering, dictionary server
- SGMLS, SGMLSASP
- SGML parser and replacement tool
- Stemming
- Limited morpholigical reduction to (near) root forms
- Stop word removal
- Omitting some words, for editing out entries that need not be indexed
- VTLS
- Virginia Tech Library System
- WAIS
- Wide Area Information Server --- searching using old version of Z39.50
- WATERS
- Wide Area TEchnical Report Service --- uses WWW, WAIS, Techrep --- central bibliographic database and decentralized storage of repo rts
- xv
- Image display and manipulation