Introduction: Several controlled vocabularies are used for indexing three journal articles to check if better or equal consistency rates are achieved with a list of descriptors than with a standard thesaurus and augmented thesaurus. Method: A terminology set for library and information Science was used to build a list of descriptors with…

Businesses and higher education leaders are looking for students with the ability to evaluate and analyze information and to use this information to solve real-world problems. These are the information literacy skills students need for the 21st century. However, several recent studies on the ability of college freshmen to handle the rigor of…

The last in a series of five papers, the author concludes that only three characteristics of indexing seem to be capable of being compared quantitatively. These are breadth of vocabulary, depth of indexing, and the use of see and see also references. (AB)

The first of a series of five papers whose aim is to find a rational basis for indexing and some means to evaluate it. (Author)

Four papers are included in Part One of the eighteenth report on Salton's Magical Automatic Retriever of Texts (SMART) project. The first paper: "Content Analysis in Information Retrieval" by S. F. Weiss presents the results of experiments aimed at determining the conditions under which content analysis improves retrieval results as well…

THE MAIN OBJECTIVES OF THE ANALYSES INCLUDE--(1) A RESEARCH STUDY OF TECHNIQUES FOR THE EVALUATION OF ASSOCIATIVE AND COORDINATE MESSAGE RETRIEVAL METHODS. (2) THE PREPARATION AND ANALYSIS OF MACHINE-READABLE TEST CORPORA SUITABLE FOR EXPERIMENTS WITH ASSOCIATIVE MESSAGE RETRIEVAL METHODS. THESE CORPORA CONSIST OF APPROXIMATELY 10,000 MESSAGES AND…

THE AVAILABILITY OF STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON HAD SUGGESTED THEIR POSSIBLE USE AS INDEXERS FOR INDEXING DOCUMENTS FOR THE AEROSPACE MATERIALS INFORMATION CENTER (AMIC). A STUDENT HAD BEEN EMPLOYED TWO YEARS AGO AND INFORMALLY TRAINED IN INDEXING. THE SUCCESS OF THAT EXPERIENCE, THE SUCCESSFUL DEVELOPMENT OF A CONTROLLED VOCABULARY, AND…

Gedenken experimentation provides a theoretical basis for what the indexer does, lends itself to (1) various schemes for the education of indexers, (2) the provision of graphic aids to indexing, and (3) the evaluation of indexing performance. Traditional solutions to the indexing problem are also discussed and compared with the gedanken method.…

A preliminary investigation which revealed the omission of four full length articles on rheumatology from Index Medicus'' is reported upon. Further investigations are in progress and will be reported at a later date. (Author/SJ)

The relevance assessments belonging to the Cranfield II document/query collection are shown to be faulty, in the sense that many" relevant documents were not so identified by the Cranfield judges. 9 references. (Author)

The complete report, ERIC document ED 022 494, is abstracted in the February 1969 "Research in Education.

THE REPORT DESCRIBES THE EFFECTS THAT A CONTROLLED VOCABULARY HAS ON THE INDEXING AND SEARCHING OPERATIONS OF THE DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL SYSTEM ESTABLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON FOR THE AIR FORCE MATERIALS LABORATORY. THE SYSTEM CONTAINS ABOUT 30,000 SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL REPORTS COVERING ALL ASPECTS OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND IS CONTROLLED BY…

The investigation is part of a continuing project to find better means for studying and evaluating document representations (e.g., abstracts, indexes). The present study focused on understanding the ways individuals interpret index terms, with the goal of using the findings in improving indexing systems. Indexing systems use all-or-none bases for…

The Index to Dental Literature" is evaluated in terms of its classification system, its standardization of nomenclature, its use of cross references and its effectiveness in machine-searching for information. (Author)