Oracle8
ConText Cartridge Application Developer's Guide
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This manual explains the SQL*Plus and PL/SQL tools you use
to issue text and theme queries with Oracle8 ConText Cartridge and how
to enable users to view queried documents. It also explains how to generate
document summaries using the linguistic capabilities of Oracle8 ConText
Cartridge.
This document is intended for an application designer, application
programmer, or systems analyst responsible for designing and developing
text query applications using the facilities provided by ConText.
It is also applicable to the user responsible for managing
text in a ConText application. Such users could also include DBAs or system
administrators.
This document assumes that you have experience with the Oracle
relational database management system, SQL, SQL*Plus, and PL/SQL. See the
documentation provided with your hardware and software for additional information.
If you are unfamiliar with the Oracle RDBMS and related tools,
read Chapter 1, "A Technical Introduction to the Oracle Server", in the
Oracle8 Concepts Manual. The chapter is a comprehensive introduction
to the concepts and terminology used throughout Oracle documentation.
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This manual is designed to be used by application developers
to produce text retrieval applications for end users.
Specific tasks in the application design process depend on the type and complexity of the application being developed, but in general, the development process consists of six tasks:
This book only deals with developing a ConText application
and tuning the application's performance. All the information necessary
to develop and maintain ConText applications is covered in the following
chapters.
The Oracle8 ConText Cartridge Administrator's Guide
contains information about creating and maintaining the system environment
to support ConText applications. The administrator's guide and the application
developer's guide are designed to be used together.
This chapter describes a typical ConText query application
and the ConText features you can use to build the application.
This chapter describes and compares the different query methods.
This chapter describes the various operators you can use
to build query expressions.
This chapter describes how to issue theme queries.
This chapter describes query expression feedback.
This chapter describes how to create highlighted output from
a text or theme query and how to present highlighted documents to users.
This chapter describes ConText's theme extraction system.
This chapter describes how to create linguistic output, including
managing the service queue and combining theme/text queries with linguistic
output.
This reference chapter describes the SQL functions you can
use with ConText.
This reference chapter describes the procedures and functions
included in the PL/SQL packages shipped with ConText.
This appendix describes the schema for the result tables
used for issuing text and theme queries, highlighting text, and creating
linguistic output.
This appendix describes ConText's scoring algorithm for text
queries.
This appendix contains explanations of the demonstration
applications distributed with ConText.
This appendix lists all ConText stopword transformations.
This appendix provides a list of the concepts in the knowledge
catalog that serve as grouping categories.
This book adheres to the following type conventions:
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