Thesaurus supported search
This function can be useful for experienced users, as it provides information on logic of the classification of the documents. One can navigate through a thesaurus and view the connections between various terms, and use them appropriately. The system is automated, so during the navigation process one can indicate specific words as those relevant to our interest. All the marked descriptors are collected into a descriptor field and the end-user can re-edit his/her query, add other criteria, and submit the query. As experienced, this type of searching provides very high precision and relevance.
The main features of the system are as follows:
- Various navigation strategy can be implemented very easily (alphabetic, KWOC, systematic);
- Unlimited number of thesauri can be run by the system and unlimited number of databases and record types can be searched with the thesauri;
- If a thesaurus has links to another thesaurus or concordance table, one can easily implement one-thesaurus standard to the databases applying various thesauri.
- One can also use multilingual thesauri to make search in a language different to the language used for indexing a given database. It means that one can perform search in a database indexed with English descriptors, using for example French variants of the descriptors.
