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Methodologies for Subject Analysis in Bibliographic Databases.

Peer reviewed

Milstead, Jessica L. – Information Processing and Management, 1992

Examines current activities in subject analysis of large bibliographic databases to assist database managers in making cost-effective decisions. Issues addressed include manual indexing aids, automatic indexing, and connecting indexing terms. Several software packages are described, and future research directions are suggested. (58 references)…

Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Bibliographic Databases, Computer Software, Cost Effectiveness

Semi-Automatic Determination of Citation Relevancy: User Evaluation.

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Huffman, G. David – Information Processing and Management, 1990

Discussion of online bibliographic database searches focuses on a software system, SORT-AID/SABRE, that ranks retrieved citations in terms of relevance. Results of a comprehensive user evaluation of the relevance ranking procedure to determine its effectiveness are presented, and implications for future work are suggested. (10 references) (LRW)

Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Citations (References), Computer Software, Correlation