SIGIR'98 demonstrations: SIM: the Structured Information Manager
SIM: the Structured Information Manager
Ron Sacks-Davis
Department of Computer Science,
RMIT University,
Carlton 3053, Australia.
Alan Kent
Department of Computer Science,
RMIT University,
Carlton 3053, Australia.
Abstract
SIM, the Structured Information Manager, is an information retrieval
system which is designed to manage multi-gigabyte collections of
documents containing text, images, and other forms of data, storing
them natively in SGML, MARC, RTF, and ASCII formats. It is a
fully-fledged system that provides integrated support for efficient
ranked full text, boolean, and structural querying via a robust
database server capable of practically managing multi-gigabyte document
collections.
SIM can and has been used for a variety of applications, including
bibliographic and full-text retrieval, legal statute management,
and intra-net document delivery. SIM represents the concrete
implementation of numerous advanced information retrieval research
issues, including text indexing and querying techniques, storage
and querying of structured documents, automatic document markup,
and the management and versioning of legal documents.
SIGIR'98
24-28 August 1998
Melbourne, Australia.
sigir98@cs.mu.oz.au.