FASIT: A Fully Automatic Syntactically Based Indexing System.

Dillon, Martin; Gray, Ann S.

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Publication Date: 1983-Mar

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FASIT: A Fully Automatic Syntactically Based Indexing System.

Dillon, Martin; Gray, Ann S.

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v34 n2 p99-108 Mar 1983

Provides background of automatic indexing and overview of Fully Automatic Syntactically based Indexing of Text (FASIT), a system based on idea that content-bearing words belong to certain syntactic categories. Results of comparison of FASIT with thesaurus and stem-based indexing systems on database of 250 documents and 22 queries are summarized. (EJS)

Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Comparative Analysis, Databases, Information Retrieval, Online Systems, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Search Strategies, Subject Index Terms, Tables (Data)

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Language: English

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