An investigation into the automatic classification of book material represented by back-of-the-book indexers Export

@article{RefWorks:233, abstract = {Paper presented at the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group Research Colloquium, Leeds University, Apr 78 to which this issue of the journal is devoted. Describes a research project to investigate the use of the back-of-the-book index as surrogate to book material within a computerised information retrieval system. A database is under construction which will incorporate the back-of-the-book indexes to 300 books drawn from 6 classes of a polytechnic library classification scheme, and it is proposed to automatically classify these entries, and compare: (1) the results with shelf classification; and (2) cluster formations achieved as a result of using both degenerate and non-degenerate representations of the full index lists and those which result from the use of subsets of those indexes selected on the basis of title and chapter headings.}, author = {Enser, P. G. B.}, citeulike-article-id = {239677}, journal = {Journal of Informatics}, keywords = {automatic\_classification, back-of-the-book\_index, classification, clustering, indexing}, month = {Apr}, number = {1}, pages = {18--23}, posted-at = {2005-06-29 05:19:38}, priority = {2}, title = {An investigation into the automatic classification of book material represented by back-of-the-book indexers}, volume = {2}, year = {1978} }

TY - JOUR ID - RefWorks:233 L3 - citeulike-article-id:239677 N2 - Paper presented at the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group Research Colloquium, Leeds University, Apr 78 to which this issue of the journal is devoted. Describes a research project to investigate the use of the back-of-the-book index as surrogate to book material within a computerised information retrieval system. A database is under construction which will incorporate the back-of-the-book indexes to 300 books drawn from 6 classes of a polytechnic library classification scheme, and it is proposed to automatically classify these entries, and compare: (1) the results with shelf classification; and (2) cluster formations achieved as a result of using both degenerate and non-degenerate representations of the full index lists and those which result from the use of subsets of those indexes selected on the basis of title and chapter headings. IS - 1 JF - Journal of Informatics EP - 23 TI - An investigation into the automatic classification of book material represented by back-of-the-book indexers VL - 2 SP - 18 KW - automatic_classification KW - back-of-the-book_index KW - classification KW - clustering KW - indexing AU - Enser, PGB PY - 1978/Apr// ER -