I am deeply indebted to Dr. Michael Berry, my major advisor, for his kind guidance and support. I also thank Dr. Susan Dumais, director of the Information Sciences Research Group at Bellcore, for her technical advice. In addition, she graciously allowed us
2.3.4QueryProjectionandMatching
2.3.5RelevanceFeedback
3TheDesignandImplementationofaLatentSemanticIndexingServer
3.1FunctionalSpeci cation
3.2OriginalImplementation
3.3ANewImplementation
3.3.1SerialImplementation
3.3.2DistributedImplementation
3.3.3C++classes
4AClient-ServerInterface
4.1TheWorld-WideWeb
4.1.1TheHyperTextMarkupLanguage(HTML)
4.1.2HTMLFormsandtheCommonGatewayInterface(CGI)
4.2TheLSIWWWInterface
4.2.1Features
4.2.2ALookattheInterface
4.3Implementation
4.3.1LSI:Book
4.3.2LSI:Query
4.3.3SupportingC++Classes
5ResultsandConclusions
5.1ComputingEnvironment
5.2Methodology
5.3SerialResults
5.3.1TheProblemsofTimingontheUTKCSNetwork
5.3.2LsiQueryversusLsiFinder
5.3.3LsiBackendversusLsiFinder
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