IS 551

IS 551 -- Document Storage and Retrieval Systems

Information Systems types-An overview: Information retrieval systems, DBMS, MIS, decision support systems, dialog systems. Fundamentals of retrieval systems: adjacency and term frequency features, text analysis and automatic indexing, thesaurus rules and construction, retrieval evaluation. Document storage technology and techniques. Emerging technology: hypertext systems, multimedia and hypermedia systems, hardware requirements.