Use of the INSTRUCT text retrieval program at the Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Willett, Peter^{; 1} | Wood, Frances E.

Affiliations: Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK

Note: [1] To whom all correspondence should be addressed.

Abstract: INSTRUCT is a text retrieval program which incorporates a large number of techniques that have been suggested by research in document retrieval; in particular, it makes extensive use of the best match model of document retrieval, rather than the Boolean model which underlies the great majority of current text retrieval systems. This paper summarizes the use of INSTRUCT in masters and doctoral programmes in information science and librarianship at the Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield. [French, German and Spanish translations of this abstract can be found on pp. 195–196]

DOI: 10.3233/EFI-1989-7204

Journal: Education for Information, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 133-141, 1989