The Information Technology and Pacific Rim session of LITA 1992, Denver Colorado, Sep 16, 1992

Full-Text date-base development in ROC

摘要

The study of full-text data-base has been started since the early 1980s in Taiwan, ROC. Owing to the intrinsic characteristics of Chinese language, the technology developed for Chinese full-text data base is quite different from that for English.

Recently, the Chinese language full-text data-base technology is gaining in maturity. There are 4 full-text DBMS available in Taiwan. Full-text data bases are availablein classical literature studies, legislative information services, news services, abstract search in library services, etc. The number of available full-text data bases are around 30 now in Taiwan, and more than 70 for mainland China, Hongkong and Taiwan all together. But , so far, there is no full-text DBMS developed from mainland China or Hongkong.

The demand of full-text data base is increasing rapidly in Taiwan, and we expect more full-text data bases will be available in the coming year.