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Peer reviewedBurgin, Robert; Dillon, Martin – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1992
Discussion of automatic indexing in information retrieval systems focuses on attempts to improve the indexing representation produced by the FASIT system. Concept selection and concept grouping are explained; improving disambiguation is discussed; and a retrieval experiment to test the effectiveness of the disambiguation using the cystic fibrosis…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Automatic Indexing, Cystic Fibrosis, Databases
Dillon, Martin; And Others – Proceedings of the ASIS Mid-Year Meeting, 1992
Describes a project that examined textual information available on the Internet and potential means of providing access to this information. Highlights include an overview of Internet resources, a profile of a document sample, description of FTP (File Transfer Protocol) sites, and an automated method of categorizing files. (MES)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Automatic Indexing, Classification, Databases
Peer reviewedDillon, Martin; Gray, Ann S. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 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.…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Comparative Analysis, Databases, Information Retrieval
