Journal of Documentation: Volume 46 Issue 2

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RULES OF INDEXING: A CRITIQUE OF MENTALISM IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL THEORY

BERND FROHMANN

A rule‐governed derivation of an indexing phrase from the text of a document is, in Wittgenstein's sense, a practice, rather than a mental operation explained by reference to…

COMPUTER‐BASED INFORMATION SERVICES FOR EDUCATION AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES IN NEW ZEALAND: A REVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS

KEITH PICKENS

The development of information services for education and the social sciences in New Zealand goes on in a policy vacuum. A national mainframe‐based information service has failed…

A MODEL OF KNOWLEDGE BASED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL WITH HIERARCHICAL CONCEPT GRAPH

YOUNG WHAN KIM, JIN H. KIM

This paper discusses a knowledge based information retrieval model with hierarchical thesaurus. The model computes the conceptual distance between a query and an object and both…

DOCUMENTATION NOTE: SELECTIVE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION (SDI): RELATIONSHIP TO PRODUCTIVITY IN THE CORPORATE R&D ENVIRONMENT

LAWRENCE G. MONDSCHEIN

Selective dissemination of information (SDI) is an information alerting service designed to keep individuals informed of new developments in their particular fields of interest…

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ISSN:

0022-0418

e-ISSN:

1758-7379

ISSN-L:

0022-0418

Online date, start – end:

1945

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof David Bawden