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Download full textFernández-Pampillón, Ana M. – Education Sciences, 2017
Vocabularies are linguistic resources that make it possible to access knowledge through words. They can constitute a mechanism to identify, describe, explore, and access all the digital resources with informational content pertaining to a specific knowledge domain. In this regard, they play a key role as systems for the representation and…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Electronic Libraries, Metadata, Information Management
Office of Naval Research, Washington, DC. – 1966
GUIDELINES AND CONVENTIONS ARE PRESENTED FOR THE SELECTION OF APPROPRIATE TECHNICAL SUBJECT INDEXING AND RETRIEVAL TERMINOLOGY AND THE DISPLAY OF THIS TERMINOLOGY IN A THESAURUS FORMAT. THESE CONVENTIONS WERE DEVELOPED BY PROJECT LEX, THE DOD TECHNICAL THESAURUS TASK FORCE, IN COOPERATION WITH THE ENGINEERS JOINT COUNCIL. A DISCUSSION IS GIVEN OF…
Descriptors: Guides, Indexing, Information Retrieval, Lexicography
Daniels, Parmely C.; And Others – 1969
Five facets of background information are intended to be helpful to persons interested in the construction and use of a thesaurus, in the sense of a standardized language for communication with and between information storage and retrieval systems. Based on the Thesaurus of Engineering and Scientific Terms (TEST) as an example: (1) the thesaurus…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Language Standardization, Lexicography, Subject Index Terms
National Center for Educational Research and Development (DHEW/OE), Washington, DC. Panel on Educational Terminology. – 1969
This is a revision of the "Rules for Thesaurus Preparation," published in October 1966. These rules are designed to help the Central ERIC staff and the staffs of the ERIC Clearinghouses make similar decisions related to the addition and modification of terms in the "Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors," Second Edition. In addition to…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Indexing, Information Networks, Information Retrieval
Peer reviewedChandrasekharan, N.; And Others – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1987
Demonstrates the use of a directed graph model as a tool for finding desirable minimum vocabularies to be used in indexing and information retrieval. The basic algorithm is outlined, possible enhancements to the model are discussed, and further research questions are suggested. (Author/CLB)
Descriptors: Definitions, Dictionaries, Indexing, Information Retrieval
Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY. Dept. of Computer Science. – 1970
Part Two of the eighteenth report on Salton's Magical Automatic Retriever of Texts (SMART) project is composed of three papers: The first: "The Effect of Common Words and Synonyms on Retrieval Performance" by D. Bergmark discloses that removal of common words from the query and document vectors significantly increases precision and that…
Descriptors: Automation, Dictionaries, Information Retrieval, Lexicography
Klingbiel, Paul H. – 1970
The role of formal, controlled vocabularies for indexing and retrieval is contrasted with the use of natural language for these activities. The following credo is advanced for large central information processors as appropriate to the 1970's (1) Highly structured controlled vocabularies are obsolete for indexing and retrieval; (2) The natural…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Computers, Information Centers, Information Retrieval
Batty, David; Hitchens, Christopher – 1981
Recent work on the development of Synthesized User Based Terminology Index Languages (SUBTIL), i.e., index and query languages for information systems which employ vocabulary elicited from potential users of the system, is described in this paper. Following a brief review of the literature on thesaurus construction and index languages is a…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Indexing, Information Retrieval, Information Systems
Perry, Jessica, Ed.; Pietrzyk, Alfred, Ed. – 1971
The four chapters included in this report are based on LINCS project activities undertaken since 1968, with an emphasis on indexing tools in the language sciences and related problems. Chapter one, "Indexing Tools for the Language Sciences: Methodology," discusses the development of a LINCS thesaurus and its role in the LINCS network.…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Classification, Indexing, Information Networks
