Managing an Uncontrolled Vocabulary Ex Post Factor.

Lefever, Maureen; And Others

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Publication Date: 1972

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Managing an Uncontrolled Vocabulary Ex Post Factor

Lefever, Maureen; And Others

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 23, 6, 339-342, Nov-Dec 72

The operational retrospective retrieval service offered by BIOSIS exploits a file created essentially without vocabulary control. A pragmatic program of file building criteria has been persued which has provided improved retrieval and an annual summary of the vocabulary of the literature. (11 references) (Author/KE)

Descriptors: Indexing, Information Retrieval, Permuted Indexes, Search Strategies, Vocabulary

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