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The Impact of Term-Indexing Characteristics on a Document Space.
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Wolfram, Dietmar; Zhang, Jin – Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 2001
Investigated the impact of term frequencies, term distributions, and indexing exhaustivity on the representation of document spaces in a visual, vector-based retrieval environment. Compares document-space densities and discusses visualization techniques, term weights, and implications for automatic indexing in information retrieval systems.…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Comparative Analysis, Information Retrieval, Subject Index Terms
To Index or Not To Index.
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Veenema, Fred – Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 1996
Describes an experiment comparing the performance of an automatic full-text indexing software for personal computers (i.e., the Quick-Finder facility in WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows) with the human intellectual assignment of indexing terms to each document in a collection. Results are discussed in terms of ease of use, the time factor, and recall…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Comparative Analysis, Computer Software Evaluation, Indexes
The Ontological Perspectives of the Semantic Web and the Metadata Harvesting Protocol: Applications of Metadata for Improving Web Search.
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Fast, Karl V.; Campbell, D. Grant – Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 2001
Compares the implied ontological frameworks of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting and the World Wide Web Consortium's Semantic Web. Discusses current search engine technology, semantic markup, indexing principles of special libraries and online databases, and componentization and the distinction between data and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data, Indexing, Metadata