WAIS SERVER FOR NEXTSTEP
WAIS (Wide Area Information Servers) Server was a network publishing system designed to help users find information over a computer network by simply asking questions. Enhanced search characteristics offer greater precision and recall:
- Full-text search takes into account word frequency, density, and proximity
- Weighted Boolean search integrates with free text
- Fielded search supported up to 256 fields per database
- Relevance feedback expands search to find related documents
- Two stemming packages offer choices (for example, the search term computers finds computer)
- Wildcards enable extended searches (for example, the term comput* finds computer, computing
- Stopword lists could be customized (words to be ignored when searching, such as the and it)
- Query Report provides immediate feedback (such as size of database, total hits)
You could control access for greater security and user authorization. Efficient use of disk space:
indexes created by WAIS Server for UNIX® were small—they ranged from one-third to one-half the
size of the database, without compromising server performance.
WAIS Inc.
$15,000
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