Full-text Retrieval System for Humanities Researches

The full-text retrieval system which is available in Internet-incapable places is reported. To use the retrieval service in a quick and efficient manner, there are properties which the system should require. Portability, accuracy and timeliness are defined as requirements for practical use and we constructed the system for satisfying all these properties. Moreover we supplied the registration support and implemented a unique bookmark feature in order that the system can fulfill the properties named installation-facility and reusability. Evaluation experiments made sure that the added features were useful for the information retrieval. Since the system is developed for supporting literature searching by humanities researchers, it does not only accept a variety of document files but split Excel files by row into the records at the time of registration. Application of the service to source code management is also discussed.