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THE EXPRESSION OF CONCEPTUAL SYNTAGMATIC RELATIONSHIPS: A COMPARATIVE SURVEY
REBECCA GREENThe expression of conceptual syntagmatic relationships in document retrieval systems holds out hope for both increased discrimination (generally) and increased recall (in certain…
A PROVISIONAL NOTATION FOR DESCRIBING THE INFORMATION STRUCTURE OF DOCUMENTS
M.H. HEINEA simple notation for describing the internal structure of a document is presented, and contrasted with other, more conventional notations for describing documents, in particular…
CONSISTENCY IN REFERENCING
THOMAS LANGHAMThis paper argues for precision in citing. It proposes an approach to citation analysis that would encourage that precision, and contrasts this approach with one based on inferred…
TOPICAL SUBJECT EXPERTISE AND THE SEMANTIC DISTANCE MODEL OF RELEVANCE ASSESSMENT
TERRENCE A. BROOKSThis paper reports two experiments that investigated the semantic distance model (SDM) of relevance assessment. In the first experiment graduate students of mathematics and…
SCHOLARLY FORAGING AND NETWORK DISCOVERY TOOLS
BLAISE CRONIN, CAROL A. HERTParallels between subsistence foraging and scholarly information seeking are described in the context of the World‐Wide Web. It is suggested that the prevailing information…
WHO CITES WOMEN? WHOM DO WOMEN CITE?: AN EXPLORATION OF GENDER AND SCHOLARLY CITATION IN SOCIOLOGY
ELISABETH DAVENPORT, HERBERT SNYDERThe authors offer a brief analysis of citation practice in twenty‐five American sociological journals, in an attempt to explore claims that citation may show gender bias. Their…
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