Retrieval Languages of Social Sciences and Natural Sciences: A Statistical Investigation.

Kim, Chai

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Publication Date: 1982-Jan

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Retrieval Languages of Social Sciences and Natural Sciences: A Statistical Investigation.

Kim, Chai

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v33 n1 p3-7 Jan 1982

Examines and compares the theoretical and empirical bases for the use of the relative frequency of descriptor use in the design and maintenance of thesauri for information retrieval in the social and natural sciences. Data are presented in two tables and a reference list is included. (JL)

Descriptors: Indexing, Information Retrieval, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Statistical Analysis, Subject Index Terms, Tables (Data), Thesauri, Word Frequency

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Language: English

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