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On the Processing of Printed Subject Index Entries during Searching

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Keen, E. Michael – Journal of Documentation, 1977

Reports an experiment in which verbalized tape-recorded searches on five subject indexes reveal the linguistic processing taking place. Extracts from the search transcriptions are given, and the search processing modes of seeking, scanning, and screening are discussed. (Author/KP)

Descriptors: Indexes, Information Processing, Language, Language Patterns

Cybersemiotics: A New Interdisciplinary Development Applied to the Problems of Knowledge Organization and Document Retrieval in Information Science.

Peer reviewed

Brier, Soren – Journal of Documentation, 1996

Explains an interdisciplinary framework for library information science, especially information retrieval, which considers sociocultural context of search terms in a way that the cognitivist information processing paradigm does not. Limitations of cognitivist information processing conceptions are discussed, as well as the possible effects of the…

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Context Effect, Cultural Context, Information Processing