Describes a new text analysis approach to automate the indexing process, i.e., an automated keywording system designed to behave as a human expert indexer, and explains the rule base of the approach, which consists of lists of insertion and deletion rules generated by subject matter experts. (32 references) (Author/SD)

The purpose of this research is to simulate the manual process of assigning descriptors to magazine articles by machine, to investigate how successful automated assignment of descriptors to a heterogeneous text collection is when a text classifier is trained based upon a small set of manually classified example texts, and to test performance of…

Present work in classification is surveyed, and four major unsolved problems and 12 research problems are outlined. (PF)

This investigation shows why and how an artificially created scientific language finds it impossible to keep pace with current developments and thus points to the source of strength of natural language. (Author)

A system of text editing and processing that is not based on page proof, as conventionally, but rather on the author's manuscript. The index is sorted and compiled by computer by about the time the manuscript enters production, and is output in type concurrently with composition of the text. (Author/LS)

Goffman's indirect method and a MeSH tree structure were used to classify a set of 109 medical documents. (PF)

The automated system used to create the "Weekly Subject Index" to "Current Contents Life Sciences" was recently redesigned to allow the creation of complex bound terms through the use of several

A look at The London Education Classification, based on facet analysis, and has also been used as the basis for a thesaurus which was the English contribution to the multilingual thesaurus compiled for the EUDISED project of the Council of Europe. (Author)

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This study identifies the amount of duplication among the lists of primary journals regularly monitored by the BioSciences Information Service of Biological Abstracts, the Chemical Abstracts Service and Engineering Index, Inc. (4 references) (SJ)

A brief description of an efficient information retrieval system by which students, teachers, researchers, etc., may store information and data that are pertinent to their work. (AK)

The anomalous character of the well-known H. W. Wilson Company publication called The Reference Shelf" and its treatment in libraries are discussed. (Author/NH)

Describes a system for the automatic coding of most descriptive titles which generates Nested Phrase Indexing System (NEPHIS) input strings of sufficient quality for permuted index production. A series of examples and an 11-item reference list accompany the text. (JL)