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Molto, Mavis; Svenonius, Elaine – Information Processing and Management, 1991
Study results indicate that it is feasible to develop automatic name recognition algorithms to distinguish character strings representing names from other character strings occurring in English language titles. This finding offers cautious promise for alleviating some of the labor intensive work of cataloging. (16 references) (Author/SD)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Cataloging, Computer System Design, Expert Systems