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AN APPLICATION OF LANGUAGE PROCESSING FOR A SEARCH INTERFACE
BRIAN VICKERY, ALINA VICKERYThe paper describes techniques developed by Tome Associates to process natural language queries into search statements suitable for transmission to online text database systems…
CHANGING COMMUNICATION ACTIVITIES IN THE BRITISH SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY
A.J. MEADOWS, P. BUCKLEThe last detailed study of trends in science communication in the uk was carried out a decade ago. A new study has therefore been made (via interview and questionnaire surveys) to…
ENHANCING SUBJECT ACCESS TO OPACS: CONTROLLED VOCABULARY VS NATURAL LANGUAGE
SHIRLEY ANNE COUSINSExperimental evidence suggests that enhancing the subject content of OPAC records can improve retrieval performance. This is based on the use of natural language index terms…
THE TRAJECTORY OF REJECTION
BLAISE CRONIN, GAIL MCKENZIEDescribes the fate of 101 manuscripts rejected by the Journal of Documentation during the years 1981–1989. More than a quarter were subsequently traced in the literature. The…
NORMALISED IMPACT FACTOR
B.K. SENDescribes how the idea of normalised impact factor came into being and the method of its determination. In all, five properties of the normalised impact factor have been…
LETTERS
Sir, knowledge structures in information retrieval. This note has been stimulated by reading the recent article by David Ellis. The cognitive approach in information retrieval (I…
REVIEWS
Since its origins during the Second World War, the computer industry has grown more rapidly than any other technology in history, and this growth has spawned a wealth of new terms…
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