Human and Automated Indexing Combine for Greater Results

Continental DataGraphics enables organizations to go digital with their documentation. Different engineering software formats and delivery platforms can be provided for the delivery of the scanned output. The company also employs Business Solutions Architects to work alongside clients to inspect each aspect of the document imaging and management process. This allows clients proper and easier data storage, retrieval and archiving.

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Good Indexing Means Good Retrieval

by Marjorie M.K. Hlava First published in Information Today So far this column has covered design considerations for the building of a database. Editorial guidelines have been set forth. Fields have been discussed and quantified. The next steps involve the tagging or coding of the data in a uniform manner so it can be pulled…

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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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