Journal of Documentation: Volume 48 Issue 3

AN APPLICATION OF LANGUAGE PROCESSING FOR A SEARCH INTERFACE

BRIAN VICKERY, ALINA VICKERY

The 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. BUCKLE

The 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 COUSINS

Experimental 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 MCKENZIE

Describes 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. SEN

Describes 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…