Accession Number:

AD0607467

Title:

AUTOMATIC INDEXING: AN EXPERIMENTAL INQUIRY.

Descriptive Note:

Revised ed.,

Corporate Author:

RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CALIF

Personal Author(s):

• MARON,M. E.

Report Date:

1961-02-02

Pagination or Media Count:

37.0

Abstract:

This inquiry examines a technique for automatically classifying indexing documents according to their subject content. The task, in essence, is to have a computing machine read a document and on the basis of the occurrence of selected clue words, decide to which of many subject categories the document in question belongs. This paper descirbes the design, execution and evaluation of a modest experimental study aimed at testing empirically one statistical technique for automatic indexing. Author

Descriptors:

• *SUBJECT INDEXING
• *DOCUMENTS
• AUTOMATIC
• CLASSIFICATION
• EXPERIMENTAL DATA
• STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
• PROBABILITY
• LIBRARIES
• INDEXES
• INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

Subject Categories:

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE