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Giesecke, G. Lee – 1974
Responses from 1,613 former servicemen with Spanish surnames were examined to evaluate Spanish surname recognition as a means of identifying persons of Latin American birth or ancestry. Questionnaires were mailed to 5,019 servicemen who had: (1) been inductees or enlistees in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps; (2) left active duty in the first 6…
Descriptors: Classification, Codification, Comparative Analysis, Computer Science
Giesecke, G. Lee – 1973
The results of various computerized coding techniques used to identify persons of Spanish derivation were compared to questionnaire responses in which people identified themselves as Spanish. The coding techniques classified names as Spanish and non-Spanish using the following: census surnames; Morton surnames; "Broad" Spanish surnames; "Narrow"…
Descriptors: Classification, Codification, Comparative Analysis, Computer Science
Young, Jeffrey R. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1997
Based on the idea that the current framework for organizing electronic data does not take advantage of the mind's ability to make connections among disparate pieces of information, several projects at universities around the country are taking new approaches to classification and storage of vast amounts of computerized data. The new systems take…
Descriptors: Classification, Computer Science, Computer Software Development, Concept Formation
Alberta Univ., Edmonton. Dept. of Computing Science. – 1972
Short abstracts of works in progress or completed in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta are presented under five major headings. The five categories are: Storage and search techniques for document data bases, Automatic classification, Study of indexing and classification languages through computer manipulation of data…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Automatic Indexing, Classification, Computer Science