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Peer reviewedBookstein, Abraham; Swanson, Don R. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1975
A model of word occurrences in documents is presented in the context of a model information system. (Author/PF)
Descriptors: Indexing, Information Retrieval, Information Systems, Mathematical Models
Peer reviewedBookstein, Abraham; Swanson, Don R. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1974
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Cluster Grouping, Indexes, Information Retrieval
Peer reviewedSwanson, Don R. – Journal of Education for Librarianship, 1979
Describes XMARC, a set of computer programs which provides students with a simplified means of writing programs for the automatic indexing of an experimental collection of MARC records. (Author/FM)
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Computer Programs, Databases, Information Retrieval
Peer reviewedSwanson, Don R. – Library Quarterly, 1971
Comments are made on several specific questionable aspects of experimental design in the Second Cranfield project." 8 references. (Author)
Descriptors: Bibliographic Coupling, Communication (Thought Transfer), Evaluation, Indexing
Peer reviewedSwanson, Don R. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1988
Explores the concept of information retrieval and summarizes the development of information retrieval systems. The role of relevance judgments as a systems test is discussed, principles of what information systems can and cannot be expected to achieve are presented, and areas of research interest are identified. (43 references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Evaluation Criteria, Information Retrieval, Literature Reviews
Peer reviewedSwanson, Don R. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1987
Describes a study which demonstrates that unintended logical connections within scientific literature, which potentially reveal new knowledge, are unmarked by reference citations or other bibliographic clues. Citation analysis of two separate literatures in biomedicine that have a logical link is used to support this hypothesis. (Author/CLB)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Biomedicine, Citation Analysis, Citations (References)
