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Schipma, Peter B. – 1971
Words and word fragments from the computer-readable data bases "Chemical Abstracts Condensates" and "Biological Abstracts Previews" were analyzed in terms of length, number, and frequency of appearance to determine some parameters upon which inversion of these data bases could be predicated. Types (unique words or fragments)…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Data Analysis, Databases, Indexes
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Friedman, Morton P.; Greitzer, Frank L. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1972
It is argued that the attribute-organized passage (as opposed to name-organized passage) yielded superior recall because it allowed for a hierarchically organized information retrieval scheme. (Authors/CB)
Descriptors: College Students, Data Analysis, Information Processing, Information Retrieval
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Bodoff, David; Enache, Daniel; Kambil, Ajit; Simon, Gary; Yukhimets, Alex – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2001
Addresses the query- versus document-oriented dichotomy in information retrieval. Introduces a maximum likelihood approach to utilizing feedback data that can be used to construct a concrete object function that estimates both document and query parameters in accordance with all available feedback data. (AEF)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Document Delivery, Feedback, Information Processing
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Huang, Mu-hsuan – Information Processing & Management, 2003
Uses an information processing approach to analyze the pausal behavior of end-users and identifies reasons for pausing, location of pauses, hesitation rate and pausal behavior changes over time. Confirms that searchers pause less frequently and for shorter periods as they progressed through searches over time. (Author/AEF)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Data Analysis, Information Processing, Information Retrieval
Nelson, Thomas O.; Rothbart, Robert – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1972
Study explored the possibility that the savings residual for items forgotten from long-term memory is comprised of acoustic information. (Authors)
Descriptors: Acoustics, Association (Psychology), Data Analysis, Information Processing
Rorvig, Mark; Smith, Michael M.; Uemura, Aya – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1999
Shape Recovery Analysis (SHERA), a new visual analytical technique, is applied to the N-Gram hypothesis on matched Japanese-English technical documents. Results reveal compaction in the translation of Japanese subject terms to English subject terms. The biagram approach to the Japanese data yields a remarkable similarity to the matching visualized…
Descriptors: Authority Control (Information), Data Analysis, Electronic Text, Indexes
Phalen, William J. – 1975
The Comprehensive Occupational Data Analysis Programs (CODAP) are designed for analyzing and retrieving occupational survey information collected by means of job inventories. Two programs that are parts of the CODAP system are described: the Ordering of Hierarchically Grouped Case Data (KPATH) program which reorders case data permitting…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Programs, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Brandhorst, W. T. – 1969
An analysis of existing computerized data banks in science and technology reveals that nearly half of them involve the storage and retrieval of bibliographic data. Activity in this area has been independent and autonomous. This situation is now giving way to a new environment which involves cooperation, standards, and a rigorous rational analysis…
Descriptors: Automation, Citations (References), Coordination, Data Analysis
Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY. – 1975
The papers and discussions of the 1975 Pacific Region meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery are presented. Topics included (1) the current and emerging state of the art in data management software and hardware, (2) relational systems with particular attention to new developments in systems for relational data bases, (3) advances in…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Computer Science, Computer Storage Devices, Computers
ROBERTS, ELLIS W.; AND OTHERS – 1968
THIS CURRICULUM DESIGN COULD BE USED (QUITE POSSIBLY WITH INSERVICE TRAINING SESSIONS) BY AN INSTRUCTOR EXPERIENCED IN DATA PROCESSING TO FAMILIARIZE EDUCATORS WITH THE COMPUTER AND TO TEACH THEM A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ITS USE IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATION. THE CURRICULUM CONSISTS OF AN OUTLINE OF THE POINTS TO BE COVERED IN EACH LESSON, SUPPLEMENTED…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Programs, Computers