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Cohen, Jonathan D. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1995
A statistical method of drawing index terms or "highlights" from text is presented that uses no stop list, stem or other language- and domain-specific components, allowing operation in any domain or language with minimal modification. Some experimental results are presented, showing operation in six different languages. (67 references)…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Abstracts, Automatic Indexing, Computer System Design
Roulin, Corentin – 1990
Designed to offer a "common language" to all of the parties involved in European cooperation in education, the European Education Metathesaurus is the set made up of the European Education Thesaurus (the third edition of the EUDISED Thesaurus) and the indexing languages that will be attached to it, whether sub-thesauri, specialized…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Computer System Design, Educational Research, Foreign Countries
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Moens, Marie-Francine; Uyttendaele, Caroline; Dumortier, Jos – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1999
The SALOMON project automatically summarizes Belgian criminal cases to improve access to existing and future court decisions. This article gives background information about the texts of the cases and describes the output, design models, and architecture of the SALOMON system. Evaluation of 700 criminal cases demonstrates that the algorithms have…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Access to Information, Automatic Indexing, Automation
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Woodruff, Allison Gyle; Plaunt, Christian – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1994
Presents an algorithm that automatically extracts words and phrases containing geographic place names or characteristics from a text document and uses them as input to database functions that use spatial reasoning to approximate statistically the geoposition referenced in the text. Preliminary results and future work are discussed. (28 references)…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Automatic Indexing, Computer System Design, Evaluation
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Hmeidi, Ismail; Kanaan, Ghassan; Evens, Martha – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1997
Describes automatic information retrieval system designed and built to handle Arabic data. Discusses cost-effectiveness of automatic indexing. Compares retrieval results using words as index terms versus stems and roots. Includes 19 tables; 60 queries using full words and relevance judgments are appended. (JAK)
Descriptors: Abstracts, Arabic, Automatic Indexing, Computer System Design
Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1993
Presents abstracts of 34 special interest group (SIG) sessions. Highlights include humanities scholars and electronic texts; information retrieval and indexing systems design; automated indexing; domain analysis; query expansion in document retrieval systems; thesauri; business intelligence; Americans with Disabilities Act; management;…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Administration, Automatic Indexing, Computer System Design