A dialogic networking approach to information retrieval

The user of documents, e.g. of a library, faces the task of exploring the data fundus and of selecting information according to his actual intentions. He even may find or happen to find new aspects and, following these, will further develop his original quest. How can the user be supported by PC-based procedures? Recently at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Innsbruck/Austria, the GABEK method (Ganzheitliche Bewaltigung sprachlich erfasster Komplexitat) was developed. It has proved useful so far in similar cases of ordering and/or retrieving information; especially to build hidden order structures and to incorporate them into information processing and storage facilities