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Liddy, Elizabeth D. – 1987
An investigation was undertaken into the possibility of automatically detecting how concepts exist in relation to each other in abstracts, a text-type commonly used in free-text retrieval. The end goal of this research is to capture these relationships in structured representations of abstracts' contents so that users can require not only that the…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Componential Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Information Retrieval
Craven, Timothy C. – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1996
Experimental subjects wrote abstracts of an article using a simplified version of the TEXTNET abstracting assistance software; subjects were presented with either keywords or phrases extracted automatically. Results showed considerable variation among subjects, but 37% found the keywords or phrases "quite" or "very" useful in…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Abstracts, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software