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synonym ring

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(information science)synonym ring - A list of words with related meanings used to broaden the scope of a word search. As well as returning documents which contain a sought-for word a search using a synonym ring might also return documents which contain words in the same synonym ring as a sought-for word. Synonym rings are produced manually and are usually specific to a certain field, e.g. legal knowhow.


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ISYS:desktop's Synonym Rings feature enables users to assign associations between standard words and industry-specific terminology, or in the case of intelligence analysts, between a person's name and their known aliases.
Gulf Coast HIDTA Selects ISYS Search Software to Provide Intelligence ... by Business Wire
0 for Windows 95 and NT maintains the same powerful query features of the last release including: leading and trailing wildcards, intelligent date handling and date range searching, word tense conflation, complete Boolean and proximity search operators, customizable synonym rings, fuzzy searching to compensate for OCR or typographical errors, relevancy ranking and full dynamic data exchange (DDE) support.
ISYS/Odyssey Development announces ISYS Text Retrieval 32-Bit ... by Business Wire
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