Kevin P. Jones

TL;DR: MORPHS‐Minicomputer Operated Retrieval (Partially Heuristic) System incorporates a number of linguistic features including the ability to find roots of words through affix stripping and several search strategies (including SDI) are available.

TL;DR: A number of novel automatic features have been incorporated in the retrieval system input, including the reduction of index entries to their singular root forms, the elimination of redundant words and the auto‐roling of words through their morphology.

TL;DR: This system was developed to operate on abstracted texts, but is being modified to handle more extended texts either for input into an inverted file or as a stage in creating pre-coordinate indexes.

TL;DR: These syntactic influences, together with some of the philosophy from earlier studies, have been combined to produce a set of rules which have greatly eased decision making and have enabled the thesaural vocabulary to be made more consistent.

TL;DR: The basic structure of MORPHS was described at the Fifth Cranfield Conference when emphasis was placed on the automatic root finding/role applying procedures based on linguistic principles, but this skeleton remains, but it has since been clothed with relatively complex, iterative search strategies.