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Parsing Boolean Search Expression Using Definite Clause Grammars


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1 Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC), Indian Statistical Institute, 8th Mile, Mysore Road, R. V. College Post, Bangalore 560 059, India
     

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Briefly discusses the role of search languages in Information Retrieval and broadly groups the search languages into four categories. Explains the idea of Definite Clause Grammars and demonstrates how easily parsers for boolean Jogie based search languages can easily be developed. Presents a partial Prolog code of the parser that we used in an object-Oriented bibliographic database management system.

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Information Retrieval, Search Languages, Parser, Boolean Search Expressions, Prolog, Object-Oriented Programming.
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A. R. D. Prasad
Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC), Indian Statistical Institute, 8th Mile, Mysore Road, R. V. College Post, Bangalore 560 059
India

Bidyut Baran Kar
Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC), Indian Statistical Institute, 8th Mile, Mysore Road, R. V. College Post, Bangalore 560 059
India


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Authors

A. R. D. Prasad
Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC), Indian Statistical Institute, 8th Mile, Mysore Road, R. V. College Post, Bangalore 560 059, India
Bidyut Baran Kar
Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC), Indian Statistical Institute, 8th Mile, Mysore Road, R. V. College Post, Bangalore 560 059, India

Abstract


Briefly discusses the role of search languages in Information Retrieval and broadly groups the search languages into four categories. Explains the idea of Definite Clause Grammars and demonstrates how easily parsers for boolean Jogie based search languages can easily be developed. Presents a partial Prolog code of the parser that we used in an object-Oriented bibliographic database management system.

Keywords


Information Retrieval, Search Languages, Parser, Boolean Search Expressions, Prolog, Object-Oriented Programming.