Nature of indexing: How humans and machines analyze messages and texts for retrieval. Part I: Research, and the nature of human indexing

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 231-254

  Anderson, James D ^a   Pérez Carballo, José ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; USER INTERFACES;

COGNITIVE VIEW; COMPARATIVE INDEX;

AUTOMATIC INDEXING;

EID: 0343396722     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4573(00)00026-1     Document Type: Article

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