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>From: hardy at tigger.cs.colorado.edu (Darren Hardy)
>Subject: Essence version 1.1 is now available
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>Keywords: Essence, WAIS, resource discovery, semantic indexing
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We have released version 1.1 of Essence. This distribution includes an
assortment of enhancements, both performance and functionality, over
version 1.0. I've include the README file from the distribution below.
Thanks,
-Darren
Essence is a resource discovery system based on customized information
extraction. Essence can produce a compact, yet representative index
for large amounts of diverse information, then export the it via WAIS.
The Essence prototype is available via anonymous ftp from
ftp.cs.colorado.edu [128.138.243.151] in /pub/cs/distribs/essence.
It's written in Perl and C, and has been tested on SunOS 4.x systems.
The distribution includes the following files and directories:
README This file
COPYRIGHT Copyright notice
ChangeLog List of changes
INSTALL Instructions on how to build and install Essence
Makefile Top-level Makefile
WishList List of future enhancements
aftp-cs-colorado-edu.src
The WAIS source file for the Essence interface to
the Anonymous FTP file system at ftp.cs.colorado.edu
doc/ Manual page for Essence, 1993 Winter USENIX paper,
and other information
src/ Source code for Essence and its supporting tools
We would appreciate comments and suggestions about Essence. When
reporting bugs, please include the version number (listed at the bottom
of this file). Also, note that Essence selectively chooses "promising"
keywords for the indexes, based on knowledge of the semantics of
individual file types (e.g., extracting author, title, and abstract
from troff documents). We would appreciate it if people try Essence
and suggest better ways to select keywords based on their experiences.
If you would like to be added to the essence-users list (for software
updates and other discussions, etc.), send an email message to
essence-users-request at cs.colorado.edu, with the body (not subject line)
subscribe essence-users
The authors can be reached as follows:
Darren R. Hardy
Department of Computer Science
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0430
hardy at cs.colorado.edu
Michael F. Schwartz
Department of Computer Science
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0430
schwartz at cs.colorado.edu
Version Number: 1.1
Version Date: December 21, 1993
