VOCABULARIES FOR CO‐ORDINATE SYSTEMS

Abstract

Indexing documents can be a purely mechanical operation or a highly intelligent one. It can be nothing more than a matter of listing the words in the title of the document, or it can be a detailed intellectual analysis of its content. But however the work is done, it ends up in the same way: the document gets labelled with a set of words (D). When it comes to searching the index, we again have to make up a set of words (Q). Retrieval is the operation of matching question words against document words. In co‐ordinate indexing, a document is retrieved if its word labels D include the question words Q. If we alter the words used for documents or questions, we affect the efficiency of the system.

Citation

VICKERY, B.C. (1963), "VOCABULARIES FOR CO‐ORDINATE SYSTEMS", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 15 No. 6, pp. 170-179. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb049929