Re: Indexing two-byte text

Mark Schrimsher (mschrimsher@twics.com)
Fri, 8 Dec 1995 19:19:15 +0900


At 5:25 PM 12/8/95, Paul Francis wrote:

>One major problem is that all the better dictionaries we know
>are commercial, so it broke our requirement for freely usable
>code. Second, I think using a dictionary is a never-ending
>battle. Each specialization has its own terms and require their
>own dictionary. Further, language evolves fast, especially in
>fast-moving fields. I don't want the headache of always trying
>to maintain the dictionary.

But by that time you'll be off on another project, and it'll be someone
else's headache. ;-)

>> I'm not sure what you mean by a "publisher"--I'm not sure what this does.
>> Is this different from Ingrid?
>
>"Publisher" is the (rather poor) term we use for the component
>of Ingrid that takes a resource, automatically pulls out key
>terms, generates some other info about the resource (size, type,
>title, etc.) and gives it to the component of Ingrid that inserts
>it into the navigation topology.

Is this navigation topology the part that you intend to patent?

--Mark