The Nature of Indexing: How Humans and Machines Analyze Messages and Texts for Retrieval. Part II: Machine Indexing, and the Allocation of Human versus Machine Effort.

Anderson, James D.; Perez-Carballo, Jose

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Publication Date: 2001

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The Nature of Indexing: How Humans and Machines Analyze Messages and Texts for Retrieval. Part II: Machine Indexing, and the Allocation of Human versus Machine Effort.

Anderson, James D.; Perez-Carballo, Jose

Information Processing & Management, v37 n2 p255-77 Mar 2001

Discussion of human intellectual indexing versus automatic indexing focuses on automatic indexing. Topics include keyword indexing; negative vocabulary control; counting words; comparative counting and weighting; stemming; words versus phrases; clustering; latent semantic indexing; citation indexes; bibliographic coupling; co-citation; relevance feedback; and cost factors and the growing role of automatic indexing. (Contains 54 references.) (LRW)

Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Bibliographic Coupling, Citation Indexes, Costs, Keywords, Phrase Structure, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Semantics, Vocabulary

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