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Artandi, Susan; Baxendale, Stanley – 1968
This report describes Phase 1 of a research project with the over-all objective of exploring the applicability of automatic methods in the indexing of drug information appearing in English natural language text. Two major phases of the research have been completed: (1) development of the automatic indexing method and its implementation on the test…
Descriptors: Automation, Computer Programs, Computer Storage Devices, Computers
Artandi, Susan; Baxendale, Stanley – 1969
This report describes the searching methods and the search program for the automatic indexing method which was developed and implemented in an earlie r phase of the project. The indexing method generates index tags automatically from English language text and creates a machine searchable file of index records for the document being processed.…
Descriptors: Automation, Computer Programs, Computer Storage Devices, Computers
Cercone, Nick; Mercer, Robert – ALLC Journal, 1980
Discusses an investigation of certain problems concerning the structural design of lexicons used in computational approaches to natural language understanding. Emphasizes three aspects of design: retrieval of relevant portions of lexicals items, storage requirements, and representation of meaning in the lexicon. (Available from ALLC, Dr. Rex Last,…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Design, Dictionaries, Information Retrieval
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Murrary, D. M. – Journal of Library Automation, 1970
Virtual scatter storage schemes are well suited dictionaries, having both rapid lookup and economy of storage. (MF)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Automation, Dictionaries, Information Retrieval
Air Force Systems Command, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. Foreign Technology Div. – 1969
Questions of the automation of input, output and data processing on computers in systems of information services are covered in the discussion of peculiarities of applied computers and processed information, general characteristics of processing algorithms and problems of information input and output. This is followed by a discussion of the…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Algorithms, Automatic Indexing, Automation
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Combs, 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
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Conlon, 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
Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY. Dept. of Computer Science. – 1970
Part One, Automatic Content Analysis contains: "Content Analysis in Information Retrieval;""The 'Generality' Effect and the Retrieval Evaluation for Large Collections;""Automatic Indexing Using Bibliographic Citations" and "Automatic Resolution of Ambiguities from Natural Language Text." Part Two, Automatic…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Automation, Classification, Content Analysis
Salton, Gerard – 1974
The twenty-second in a series, this report describes research in information organization and retrieval conducted by the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. The report covers work carried out during the period summer 1972 through summer 1974 and is divided into four parts: indexing theory, automatic content analysis, feedback…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Computer Programs, Computer Science, Content Analysis
SALTON, GERALD – 1968
A DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE RETRIEVAL EVALUATION RESULTS OBTAINED WITH THE AUTOMATIC SMART DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL SYSTEM FOR DOCUMENT COLLECTIONS IN THE FIELDS OF AERODYNAMICS, COMPUTER SCIENCE, AND DOCUMENTATION IS GIVEN IN THIS REPORT. THE VARIOUS COMPONENTS OF FULLY AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS ARE DISCUSSED IN DETAIL, INCLUDING THE FORMS OF…
Descriptors: Automation, Computational Linguistics, Correlation, Dictionaries