Title :
European law databases: an experiment in retrieval
Author :
O´Shea, Philip J. ; Wilson, Eve
Author_Institution :
Comput. Lab., Kent Univ., Canterbury, UK
Abstract :
The project presented has looked at novel retrieval methods for a variety of legal documents using the DAP parallel processor. The system has three main components: the document selector-this may be either the DAPText index server or any other suitable retrieval engine (DAPText is a database indexing engine from Cambridge Parallel Processing which runs on the DAP 610C, a massively parallel Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) processor; the object server or document retriever that returns the full text of selected documents; and the graphical user interface (GUI) that manages the interactions-for example, it translates the user queries into a form appropriate for the retrieval engine being used and converts the retrieved documents from the database storage format into Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) for the Web
Keywords :
bibliographic systems; document handling; full-text databases; graphical user interfaces; hypermedia; indexing; information retrieval; law administration; parallel machines; DAP 610C; DAP parallel processor; DAPText index server; European law databases; Hypertext Markup Language; Web; database indexing engine; database storage format; document retriever; document selector; full text; graphical user interface; legal documents; massively parallel Single Instruction Multiple Data; novel retrieval methods; object server; retrieval engine; retrieved documents; user queries; Databases; Digital audio players; Engines; Graphical user interfaces; Indexes; Indexing; Information retrieval; Law; Legal factors; Parallel processing;
Conference_Titel :
Database and Expert Systems Applications, 1997. Proceedings., Eighth International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Toulouse
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8147-0
DOI :
10.1109/DEXA.1997.617275
