AUTOMATIC INDEXING: AN EXPERIMENTAL INQUIRY.

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)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 02, 1961
Accession Number
AD0607467

Entities

People

  • M. E. Maron

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Automatic
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Theoretical Analysis.