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Peer reviewedJacob, Elin K.; Shaw, Debora – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 1998
Discusses research dealing with the cognitive aspects of formal systems of knowledge representation. Highlights include the origins and theoretical foundations of the cognitive viewpoint; cognition and information science; cognitivism, mentalism, and subjective individualism; categorization; mental models; and sociocognitive approaches to indexing…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Indexing
Peer reviewedEndres-Niggemeyer, Brigitte; And Others – Information Processing & Management, 1995
Examines four working steps from an empirical model where an expert abstractor discovers what a paper is about and drafts a topic sentence; a simulation system is developed using this model. Discusses knowledge processing activities of professional summarizing. Results indicate that a small simulation model of professional summarizing is feasible.…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Cognitive Processes, Computer Simulation, Data Processing
Peer reviewedMolina, Maria Pinto – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1995
A model is proposed for the general abstracting process (using disciplines such as linguistics, logic, and psychology) that is based on a system of combined strategies with four stages: reading-understanding; selection; interpretation; synthesis. (Author/JKP)
Descriptors: Abstracting, Abstracts, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
