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

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.

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