Note: before using this routine, please read the Users ’ Note for your implementation to check the interpretation of bold italicised terms and other implementation-dependent details. 1 Purpose E04VNF may be used to supply individual double precision optional parameters to E04VHF. initialization routine E04VGF must have been called before calling E04VNF.

Note: before using this routine, please read the Users ’ Note for your implementation to check the interpretation of bold italicised terms and other implementation-dependent details. 1 Purpose E04WHF may be used to supply individual double precision optional parameters to E04WDF. initialization routine E04WCF must have been called before calling E04WHF.

Note: before using this routine, please read the Users ’ Note for your implementation to check the interpretation of bold italicised terms and other implementation-dependent details. 1 Purpose E04WLF is used to get the value of a real optional parameter. E04WLF can be used before or after calling E04WDF.

Note: before using this routine, please read the Users ’ Note for your implementation to check the interpretation of bold italicised terms and other implementation-dependent details. 1 Purpose E04VNF may be used to supply individual real optional parameters to E04VHF. The initialization routine E04VGF must have been called before calling E04VNF.

Note: before using this routine, please read the Users ’ Note for your implementation to check the interpretation of bold italicised terms and other implementation-dependent details. 1 Purpose E04NUF may be used to supply individual real optional parameters to E04NQF. The initialization routine E04NPF must have been called before calling E04NUF.

Note: before using this routine, please read the Users ’ Note for your implementation to check the interpretation of bold italicised terms and other implementation-dependent details. 1 Purpose To supply individual double precision optional parameters to E04VHF. The initialization routine E04VGF must have been called prior to called E04VNF.

Note: before using this routine, please read the Users ’ Note for your implementation to check the interpretation of bold italicised terms and other implementation-dependent details. 1 Purpose E04NUF may be used to supply individual double precision optional parameters to E04NQF. initialization routine E04NPF must have been called before calling E04NUF.

How much information about a character string is needed to recognize the string? The answer to this question depends, of course, on what kind of information is available and what is meant by "how much." Several alternative kinds of information about strings are considered in this thesis

In the countries of the world, people have developed various methods to order words and names based on their cultures. Many challenges and problems are associated with developing ways for computers to emulate human ordering methods. An efficient computer method for obtaining a quality ordering has been devised as an extension to the single-step compare. It solves many but not all of the problems. A universal code now exists to store words and names written in many languages and scripts, but there is no universal way to order words and names. Hence, formal specification methods are needed for computer users to describe culture-specific ordering rules. This area is still open to research. Meanwhile, international standardization committees endeavor to formulate sensible proposals for multicultural contexts.

The paper deals with linguistic processing and retrieval techniques in fulltext databases. Special attention is focused on the characteristics of highly inflectional languages, and how morphological structure of a language should be taken into account, when designing and developing information retrieval systems. Finnish is used as an example of a language, which has a more complicated inflectional structure than the English language.