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
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Image display and manipulation