December 2010

Cross Language Retrieval – English / Russian / French

By |December 8th, 2010

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, […]

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OWL Export Module: Data Harmony for the Semantic Web

By |December 8th, 2010

by Jay Ven Eman, Ph.D., CEO of Access Innovations, Inc.

Access Innovations, Inc.What do you make of “198”?  You could assume a number.  Computer applications […]

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Best Practices for Creating and Maintaining a Thesaurus with Thesaurus Master or MAIstro

By |December 8th, 2010

by Barbara Gilles, Access Innovations thesaurian

Observing the practices described below for building a thesaurus will help ensure:

Effective searches to enable actual retrieval
A rich and […]

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

By |December 8th, 2010

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 […]

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Automatic Indexing: A Matter of Degree

By |December 8th, 2010

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 […]

The Notation Module in Thesaurus Design: An innovative view of Thesaurus Hierarchies

By |December 8th, 2010

by Scott Denning

Traditional thesaurus design has necessarily been a matter of alphabetization of the terms. While different views – permuted, hierarchical, rotated – offer […]

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Howlers: New Automation and Human Models Challenge Traditional Indexing

By |December 8th, 2010

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 […]

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