InTEXT WebPak Automatically Spins Webs Containing Thousands of Documents that are Web Site-Searchable Using Plain English; Saves Users Time by Automatically Converting Documents to HTML and Automatically Generating Hypertext Links.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 20, 1996--InTEXT Systems, the leading provider of intelligent Internet development tools and products, today announced the InTEXT WebPak that lets users automatically build dynamic, searchable World Wide Web Sites with the ease of a point and click interface. InTEXT WebPak provides a complete Web publishing Creating a Web site and placing it on the Web server. A Web site is a collection of HTML pages with the home page typically named INDEX.HTML. Web sites are designed using Web authoring software which provides a graphical layout capability or by hand coding in HTML or both. and searching solution by combining the Island InTEXT client for automatic HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. conversion and hypertext generation, InTEXT Retrieval Engine retrieval engine n. A search engine. for adding natural language searching and content-based retrieval capabilities and Web linking technology for making documents instantly viewable with a Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . "Forward-thinking companies have realized the need to begin creating their own Web Sites and corporate infobases," said Carl Frappaolo, Executive Vice President of Delphi Consulting Group. "InTEXT has done a great job of automating this time-consuming process and adding search and retrieval functionality into a single, shrink-wrapped product." Web Site construction normally requires time-intensive work. Authors normally have to convert source documents to HTML, organize these converted documents into directories, manually build hypertext links between key terms and send thousands of documents to their Web Site without the ability to easily maintain them or without allowing users easy access to the information. InTEXT WebPak automates all of this time-intensive work and includes plain English Plain English (sometimes known, more broadly, as plain language) is a communication style that focuses on considering the audience's needs when writing. It recommends avoiding unnecessary words and avoiding jargon, technical terms, and long and ambiguous sentences. querying and content-based retrieval to help users find the exact information they need quickly and easily. "Most companies today are searching for solutions to quickly access their growing libraries of information. These are becoming more and more complicated every day, but companies are reluctant to take on the cost of a large development project," said Mark Tice, General Manager of InTEXT Systems. "WebPak makes it easy and affordable for every company to build and manage a search-enabled Web Site, no matter how many documents there might be." Island InTEXT Client Automates the Web Spinning Process Island InTEXT, the InTEXT WebPak client, automates the entire process of Web Site generation by converting entire libraries of Windows documents in over 80 file formats to HyperText Markup Language (hypertext, World-Wide Web, standard) Hypertext Markup Language - (HTML) A hypertext document format used on the World-Wide Web. HTML is built on top of SGML. "Tags" are embedded in the text. A tag consists of a "<", a "directive" (in lower case), zero or more parameters and a ">". (HTML), the software language used on the World Wide Web, and automatically generates hypertext links within and between these documents. It stores documents automatically into folders, and then builds an index to make these documents searchable. Authors need only to select their documents, click a button, and by the time they get back from their coffee break, they have a Web that can be searched, using popular Web browsers The following is a list of web browsers. Historical Historically important browsers In order of release:
InTEXT Retrieval Engine Helps Users Find Web Site and Intranet Information Fast The InTEXT Retrieval Engine helps users find specific information on their Web Site or company Intranet quickly and easily. In conjunction with the Island InTEXT product, users have the ability to do natural language queries (NLQ (Near Letter Quality) Refers to the text output of dot matrix printers and some thermal printers, which is not as crisp as that of laser printers and most inkjet printers. See letter quality. ). Users can search using ordinary language, without the limitations of single word search terms or the need to understand the BOOLEAN logic The "mathematics of logic," developed by English mathematician George Boole in the mid-19th century. Its rules govern logical functions (true/false) and are the foundation of all electronic circuits in the computer. used by other text retrieval systems. "InTEXT's NLQ design eliminates the need for users to learn a syntactical language in order to access the system, providing a sophisticated access tool to virtually any user," said Frappaolo. InTEXT WebPak Features -- Intelligent Document Organizer -- Organizes incoming data into user-defined folders based on content -- without requiring indexing. -- Web Generator with HTML Conversion -- Automatically converts documents to HTML and spins Webs which can be viewed by any standard browser, such as Netscape or Mosaic, while keeping the original documents in their native formats. -- Internal and External Document Hyperlinking -- Automatically builds hyperlinks within and between documents based on similar key words and their bearing on document content. -- Automatic Summarizing -- Summarizes documents, from 1-99% of the original, and displays a key word list -- without requiring indexing. -- WWW WWW or W3: see World Wide Web. (World Wide Web) The common host name for a Web server. The "www-dot" prefix on Web addresses is widely used to provide a recognizable way of identifying a Web site. and Internet Search and Retrieval -- Supports WAIS (Wide Area Information Server) A database on the Internet that contains indexes to documents that reside on the Internet. Using the Z39.50 query language, text files can be searched based on keywords. Information resources on the Internet are called "sources. , Z39.50 and HTML standards so that Web Sites can be searched using natural language queries (NLQ) and search pages can be Site-definable. -- Natural Language Querying -- Users can query the document structure using plain English. -- Integrated Solution -- WebPak streamlines the process of organizing bulk documents, converting them to HTML, publishing them to Webs and providing content-based search and retrieval in a single suite. InTEXT WebPak Platforms Island InTEXT 2.0 supports the Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 environments. The InTEXT Retrieval Engine runs on UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and Windows-based operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . Pricing and Availability WebPak pricing begins at $12,500. A free Island InTEXT Client evaluation is available on the InTEXT Web Site at http://www.intext.com. Please call InTEXT Systems at 800/547-8288 for more information. InTEXT Systems InTEXT Systems, headquartered in San Francisco, is a leading provider of intelligent Internet development tools. The client/server products and toolkits are used by many large organizations, including Women in Technology, EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. , AT&T, The Wollongong Group, Cybergraphic Systems/News Corp, the Electric Power Research Institute, Asymetrix and Pacific Bell. InTEXT Systems is a CP Software Group company. -0- Note to Editors: InTEXT, WebPak, Retrieval Engine, Object Router, Object Analyzer, NLQ and Heuristic/Learning are Trademarks of InTEXT Systems, Inc. All other names and products are Trademarks or Registered Trademarks of their respective owners. CONTACT: InTEXT Systems Mark Tice, 415/391-5290 mark@intext.com Andrea Kauppila, 916/985-3402 73123.553@compuserve.com |
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