To Index or Not To Index.

Veenema, Fred

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Publication Date: 1996

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To Index or Not To Index.

Veenema, Fred

Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, v21 n2 p1-22 Jul 1996

Describes an experiment comparing the performance of an automatic full-text indexing software for personal computers (i.e., the Quick-Finder facility in WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows) with the human intellectual assignment of indexing terms to each document in a collection. Results are discussed in terms of ease of use, the time factor, and recall and precision. (AEF)

Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Comparative Analysis, Computer Software Evaluation, Indexes, Indexing, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking, Microcomputers, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Subject Index Terms, Tables (Data), User Needs (Information), Word Processing

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Language: English

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