Cross Language Retrieval – English / Russian / French

Marjorie M.K. Hlava, President, Access Innovations, Inc. Dr. Gerold Belonogov, Professor and Head of Department, VINITI, Moscow, Russia Dr. Boris Kuznetsov, Head of Department, VINITI, Moscow, Russia Richard Hainebach, Director, EPMS bv-Ellis Publications, The Netherlands Note: This Working Paper was presented at the 1997 American Association for Artificial Intelligence Spring Symposium Series, March 24 –…

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Saving Time and Money with a Rule Based Approach to Automatic Indexing

Getting a Higher Return on Your Investment by Marjorie M.K. Hlava, President, Access Innovations, Inc. There are two major types of automatic categorization systems. These two types of systems are known by many different names. However, the information science theory behind them boils down to two major schools of thought: rule based and statistics based.…

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Automatic Indexing: A Matter of Degree

by Marjorie M.K. Hlava October 2002 First published in the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 29 No. 1, October/November 2002. Table of Contents Definitions What Systems Are There? How Should They Be Applied? What Are the Strengths and Weaknesses? How Do We Know If They Really Work? How Expensive…

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Howlers: New Automation and Human Models Challenge Traditional Indexing

by John Blossom reprinted from www.shore.com/commentary The National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services (NFAIS) is an interesting collection of institutions and publishers joining to tackle issues in aggregating content through indexing, abstracts and leading content technologies. While there are certainly a good number of indexing experts in this set there are also many executives…

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Automatic Indexing: How Two Approaches Compare

Understanding “Rule Based” vs. “Statistics Based” Indexing Systems by Marjorie M.K. Hlava reprinted from Information Outlook with permission It’s never been more fascinating—or more challenging—to be an information professional. Surveys show that corporate librarians have more information to manage, and less staff to help manage it, than ever before. Not only is the universe of…

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Mortgage Disaster Spurs New Use of Indexing Technology

The startup, Legalprise, launched to track court records, has become the popular kid on the foreclosure block due to the mortgage industry’s tragic situation. The searchable database of every foreclosure filing and every related docket entry for five states plans to expand to cover the 23 states where foreclosures are part of a judicial process. Ultimately, the company’s goal is a nationwide, searchable repository of legal documents and public records.

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ATG Commerce 10 Released

ATG releases ATG Commerce 10 designed to help merchants speed commerce implementations, improve merchandising, rapidly launch multiple sites, and easily expand into new markets. These capabilities are designed to increase the value of merchandise, and the profitability of overall commerce initiatives.

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