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Tam, A. M.; Leung, C. H. C. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2001
Proposes a structure for natural language descriptions of the semantic content of visual materials that requires descriptions to be (modified) keywords, phrases, or simple sentences, with components that are grammatical relations common to many languages. This structure makes it easy to implement a collection's descriptions as a relational…
Descriptors: Databases, Indexing, Information Processing, Information Retrieval

Kim, Won; Wilbur, W. John – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2001
Presents three different statistical techniques for identifying content-bearing phrases within a natural language database. Describes results on the effectiveness of the scoring methods when applied to MEDLINE phrases, and how the three methods can be combined to improve performance. Processing results for an example document are provided.…
Descriptors: Data Processing, Databases, Document Delivery, Indexing