Thesauri and Bibliographic database

Conceptual Database Retrieval through Multilingual Thesauri

In traditional database management systems, information retrieval is often carried out using keywords contained within fields of each record. Because a term (concept) can be expressed in several ways, a significant number of records are ignored by the free text techniques which use only a posteriori relations between terms. This paper proposes the utilisation of a priori conceptual relations be...

Searching a biomedical bibliographic database from Bulgaria: the ABS database.

BACKGROUND The University of Sofia, Bulgaria, disseminates local biomedical literature (1994 to present) through a free online database, ABS. OBJECTIVES Our objectives were to systematically search ABS, identify citations to controlled trials and discover what proportion of these studies are to be found on medline. METHODS We searched using Bulgarian and English phrases; manually selected c...

LDC Language Resource Database: Building a Bibliographic Database

The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) creates and provides language resources (LRs) including data, tools and specifications. In order to assess the impact of these LRs and to support both LR users and authors, LDC is collecting metadata about and URLs for research papers that introduce, describe, critique, extend or rely upon LDC LRs. Current collection efforts focus on papers published in jour...

The refdbms Distributed Bibliographic Database System

Refdbms is a database system for sharing bibliographic references among many users at sites on a wide-area network such as the Internet. This paper describes our experiences in building and using refdbms for the last two years. It summarizes the collection of facilities that refdbms provides, and gives detailed information on how well refdbms functions as a collaborative, wide-area, distributed...

Running head: PITFALLS OF BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE SEARCHING