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From: andrew@dgbt.uucp (Andrew Patrick)
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Subject: Re: electronic document maintenance and retrieval systems
Summary: Reference for book provided
Keywords: retrieval books
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Date: 27 Apr 89 20:19:30 GMT
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In article <221@gollum.UUCP> rolandi@gollum.UUCP (Walter G. Rolandi) writes:
>
>What should one read to be up on electronic document maintenance and 
>retrieval systems?  What systems are commercially available and which
>are the best?  What features should commercial systems have in order
>to be competitive?

You might try beginning with "Introduction to modern information
retrieval" by G. Salton & M.J. McGill (McGraw Hill, 1983).  I found it
a good introduction.

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