The ENQUIRE Framework

This chapter sets out the structure of the ENQUIRE system, and describes some of decision processes and implementation strategies behind it.

• Infrastructure Design
  • The Interface Tool
  • The Query Model
  • Internal Communications
• System Architecture
  • The Interface Layer
  • The Query Layer
  • The Basic Search System
  • The Thesaurus Database
  • Towards a Distributed System
• Implementation Issues
  • Term Set Manipulation
    • Suggested words from the thesaurus
    • Eliminating term duplication
  • Ranking Thresholds
  • Incremental Query Expansion
  • Session Management and Transaction Logging
  • Extensions