X-Window Interface to SMART, an Advanced Text Retrieval System* Tong Lit, Victoria Chiutt Information and Computing Science Division Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Berkeley, CA 94720 and Fredric Gey School of Library and Informations Studies University of California at Berkeley email: gey@csr.lbl.gov ABSTRACT In a res.earch environment for text and document retrieval, the experimental functionality is and must be paramount. However, for long-term durability of a software product, the user-interface is seen as a critical component to successful development. In order to explore the effort involved in developing a modem user interface to a text retrieval system, the authors chose to implement a limited X-Window interface to the Cornell University SMART system. The first section of this paper will briefly introduce the history of the SMART system, its command line interface, and the goal of this project; the second will discuss the scope of the project; the development and integration strategies will be covered in sections three and four; then some ideas on the desired enhancements in section five. 1.Introduction The SMART information retrieval package is a set of programs comprising a fully automatic document retrieval system. It was developed by the researchers at Cornell University as a powerful text
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