The purpose and the principles of operation of a dialog information-retrieval system (IRS) and experience in using the system for retrieving and processing of required data from several hundreds of files, created as a result of an experiment performed on an airborne laboratory, are described.
The information-retrieval system is characterized by efficient use of the working memory, by the possibility of operating under conditions when the user possesses the objects to be retrieved before the retrieval-system is created and used, and by the fact that there are no restrictions on the structure and composition of the experimental data.