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InfoGuide: A Full-Text Document Retrieval System

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This paper describes a full-text document retrieval system developed at the Philips Research Laboratories. The system is implemented on the POOMA machine, a parallel computer with a large main memory, and offers fast as well as high-quality retrieval on very large document bases.

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  1. Philips Research Laboratories, P.O. Box 80.000, 5600 JA, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg & Frans Sijstermans

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  1. Institut für Statistik und Informatik, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria

    A. Min Tjoa

  2. Institut für Informatik, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Linz, Austria

    Roland Wagner

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Aalbersberg, I.J., Sijstermans, F. (1990). InfoGuide: A Full-Text Document Retrieval System. In: Tjoa, A.M., Wagner, R. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-7553-8_3

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