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Holmes, Thomas F.; Gentry, Castelle G. – Audiovisual Instruction, 1979
Describes the personal inverted filing system (PIFS) which features (1) storage accession numbers, (2) main entry bibliography cards, (3) retrieval by matrix or bibliography cards, and (4) classification by descriptors from existing thesauri. (CMV)
Descriptors: Classification, Filing, Guides, Information Retrieval
Peer reviewedButler, Michael J. – Journal of Teacher Education, 1979
A brief introduction to information retrieval by use of a variety of computer data bases including ERIC is presented. (JMF)
Descriptors: Databases, Guides, Information Dissemination, Information Processing
Peer reviewedMiller, Uri – Information Processing & Management, 1997
Discusses general problems of thesaurus construction theory and practice. Highlights include lexical control and its tools in various databases; natural language versus conceptual networks; systems approach; thesaurus versus classification, including associative relations; and thesaurus role in information storage and retrieval. (110 references)…
Descriptors: Classification, Databases, Information Retrieval, Information Storage
Peer reviewedBabel: International Journal of Translation, 1980
Provides a bibliography of articles and book reviews on machine translation, computational linguistics and information storage and retrieval. All items listed were published in "Babel" during the years: 1956, 1957, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, and 1979. (MES)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Databases, Documentation
Peer reviewedJohnson, Sandra; Maher, Brian – British Journal of Educational Technology, 1984
Outlines implementation and uses of the computerized question-banking system of the thesaurus-linked browse procedure used by APU National Assessment in Science Programme. The ROOT Thesaurus, a comprehensive indexing and searching tool for technological applications, is described and its modifications are discussed as the basis for the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Foreign Countries, Indexing, Information Retrieval
Peer reviewedCombs, Joseph, Jr. – Library Software Review, 1995
Reviews ConSearch 3.0, a product that provides flexible searching of electronic files, allowing the location of related meanings as well as exact matches. ConSearch 3.0 differs from other file retrieval approaches by relating words in search phrases of questions to the "meaning" of the words, which are stored in a "conceptual…
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer Software, Computer Software Reviews, Databases
Developing a Large Lexical Database for Information Retrieval, Parsing, and Text Generation Systems.
Peer reviewedConlon, Sumali Pin-Ngern; And Others – Information Processing and Management, 1993
Important characteristics of lexical databases and their applications in information retrieval and natural language processing are explained. An ongoing project using various machine-readable sources to build a lexical database is described, and detailed designs of individual entries with examples are included. (Contains 66 references.) (EAM)
Descriptors: Business Correspondence, Database Design, Databases, Dictionaries
Rorissa, Abebe; And Others – Microcomputers for Information Management, 1992
Describes an integrated database developed at Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia) that includes bibliographic records, thesauri, and a union catalog of serials. Information products and services are described, fields and formats of the records are explained, data conversion and downloading are discussed, and sample records are appended. (five…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Records, College Libraries, Databases, Developing Nations
