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Oliver, Christine Tomaszuk – Canadian Library Journal, 1989
Describes the mechanistic model of language on which automatic indexing is based, and examines the underlying assumptions of the model to demonstrate the ineffectiveness of this indexing. It is argued that theoretical research from the fields of linguistics, psychology, and philosophy need to be incorporated into automatic indexing to overcome…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Communication (Thought Transfer), Information Retrieval, Information Science