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Peer reviewedFagan, Joel L. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1989
Describes the possible improvements in the quality of automatic indexing systems gained by using complex descriptors, and reports on the effectiveness of a simple nonsyntactic phrase indexing procedure. The discussion covers shortcomings of this approach, possible methods for improvement, and areas needing further research. (43 references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Comparative Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Content Analysis
