On the architecture of a system integrating data base management and information retrieval

  • Authors:
  • Horst Biller

  • Affiliations:
  • SIETEC, Nonnendammallee 101, D-1 Berlin 13

  • Venue:
  • SIGIR '82 Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM conference on Research and development in information retrieval
  • Year:
  • 1982

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Abstract

The data model, i.e. data structures and operations needed for a system integrating the management of formated textual data (DBMIRS) are discussed. It is investigated how this data model fits into the ANSI-SPARC three schema architecture for data base management systems. The conclusion is that the DBMIRS should be regarded to be a new external data model. This would require only small changes to the concepts discussed so far for the conceptual and internal level. The advantages of this approach are:- The dichotomy between IRS and DBMS does not further exist.- The main part of the software can be used for IR systems as well as DB systems.- IR research can concentrate on the problems inherent in the retrieval of texts, e.g. automatic indexing, relevance feedback techniques.