Accession Number:

AD0735134

Title:

Automated Analysis of Language Style and Structure in Technical and Other Documents.

Descriptive Note:

Technical rept.,

Corporate Author:

KANSAS UNIV LAWRENCE

Personal Author(s):

• Sedelow,Sally Yeates

Report Date:

1971-09-01

Pagination or Media Count:

281.0

Abstract:

The project concerned with automated analysis of language style and structure in technical and other documents has had four primary emphases during the 1970-71 research year. One emphasis was the development of approaches to the modeling of thesauri, so that existing thesauri can be precisely described and new thesauri more adequate to a wide range of information retrieval requirements can be developed. A second emphasis was the writing of statistical data-gathering programs and the testing of statistical analytical tools on that data this work is directed toward a statistical support package for natural language research. A third emphasis was upon beginning the development of a theory of prefixing in English in order to provide a basis for automated handling of prefixes. The fourth emphasis was upon programming a FORTRAN IV, Honeywell 635 version of the list-structure VIA programs, which are used for content analysis as well as for inputs to the research on thesauri and statistical analysis. Author

Descriptors:

• *LANGUAGE
• AUTOMATION
• REPORTS
• DICTIONARIES
• INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
• STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
• ENGLISH LANGUAGE
• COMPUTER PROGRAMMING

Subject Categories:

• Information Science

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE