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Indexing consistency, quality and efficiency
World Patenr Information, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 136-137. Pergamon International Information Corp. Printed in Great Britain.
Abstracts, Abstracting, Classification
Literature Review
Scanned
by Country
of
Federal Republic Germany I DE i Nachrichten fur Dokumentatlon International Classification Information Systems France i FR ) Information et Documentation Science de 1’Information et Documentation (Bulletin SignalCtique) Documentaliste 01. Informatique Gernian Democraric informatik Der Neuerer
Library
Republic
I DD i
science with a slant to documentation
Socier (iniof7 I SC’ ) Nauchno-teckhnicheskaya Referativnyi Zhurnal Voprosy Izobretatel’stca
Indexing
and
1. The Use of Titles for Automatic Document Classification. K. A. Hamill & A. Zamora (CAS, Columbus, USA). Journal
Abstracts and reviews collected by the International Bureau of WIPO during a scanning of the journals contained in the following list.
List of Periodicals Pub&cation
1981.
Informatsiya
L’niied Kwqdom i GE) Journal of Documentation The InformatIon Scientist Information Systems ASLIB Proceedings Information Processing and Management C’nired Srutes 01 America i L’S) Information Hotlme APLA Bulletin Internat;onal Micrographic Congress Journal Micrographics Newsletter The Journal of Micrographics Special Libraries Journal of the American Society for Information Science Computer Chemlcai & Engmeering New Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences Data Processmg Library of Congress Information Bulletin Online Review CHEMTECH [nrerrlarwnal Publications UNISIST Newsletter, published by UNESCO Bulletin de I’UNESCO ti l’intention des bibliothCques Industrial Development Abstracts-UNIDO Industrial Information System (INDISI IS0 Bulletin International Forum on information and Do-
of the American Society for Information Science, November 1980, Vol. 3, No. 6. pp.
396-402,
2 tables, 1 fig., bibl. (15 ref.)
An ex erimental computer program has been Beveloped to classify documents according to the 80 sections and five major section groupings of Chemical Abstracts (CA). TIhe pro&am uses pattern recognition techniques supplemented by heuristics. During the ‘training’ phase, words from pre-classified documents are selected, and the probability of occurrence of each word in-each section of CA is computed and stored in a reference dictionarv. The ‘classification’ phase matches each wdrd of a document title against the dictionary and assigns a section number to the document using weights derived from the probabilities in the dictionary. 2. Graphical Representation of Chemical Structures in Chemical Abstracts Publications. A. L. Goodson (Chemical Abstracts Service. Columbus. Ohio). Jouruai of Chemical Infirmation ahd Co&purer Sd ewes, November 1980, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp.
212-217,
18 fig., bibl. (9 ref.)
The main features of the comprehensive formatting guidlines used for creating chemical st&ture diagrams for Chemicd Abstracts Service (CAS) uublications are described. The guidelines here designed to standardize format as much as possible and to conserve column space in publications. Methods used for reducing crowding in diagrams are described. 3. Indexing Consistency, Quality and Efficiency. L. Rolling (Commission of the European Communities, Luxembourg). Information Processirlg and Management, 1981, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 69-76. 9 tables.
bibl. (2 ref.). Indexing quality determmes whether the information content of an indexed document is accurately represented. Indexing effectiveness measures whether an indexed document is correctly retrieved every rime it is relevant to a query. Measurement of these criteria is cumbersome and costly: database producers therefore prefer mterindexer consistency as a measure of indexing quality or effectiveness. The present article assesses the validity of this substitution in various environments. 4. CAB Abstracts: a global view. B. Cronin (ASLIB Research & Consultancy Division). ASUB Proceedings, NovemberDecember !980, Vol. 32, No. 11!12. pp. 425-437, 4 fig., 4 tables. bibl. (31 ref.j Summarizes the findings of a recent survey of user reactions to the abstracting services produced by the Commonwealth .4gricuItural Bureaux {CAB ). 5.
The readabilitv
and information content and old law abridgements. L. Blakeborough & C. Oppenheim
of new law abstricts
the abstracts and the abridgements of United Kingdom patent documents have been measured and compared with the readability and information content of the full text of the documents themselves. Abridgements were found more difficult to read than abstracts, whilst both types of surrogates were more difficult to read than the full text. The information content of abridgements was judged to be higher than that of abstracts. Abstracts from Chemical Abstracts and from Biological Abstracts were judged to be easier to read than either the surrogates or the full texts. 6. History of Abstracting at Chemical Abstracts Service. Dale B. Baker et al. (Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio). JOWMI/ of Cilemicai Irgormation anti Computer Sciences. November 1980, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 193-201, 6 fig., bibl. (26 ref.). The evolution of abstracts and abstracting for Chemical Abstracts (CA) from 1907 to the present is traced. The growth of scientific publishing, changes in the content, form, format. national origin. and language of primary documents, the shift from a large corps of volunteer abstracters to inhouse document analyst, and the transition to modern computer processing, have all affected the preparation and publication of CA abstracts
Retrieval
Systems
7. Seventh Cranfield International Conference on Mechanised Information Storage and Retrieval Systems. The potential impact of telecommunication networks on information systems intelligence. B. Mahon (Euronet Launch Team, Luxembourg). 1,~ _formation Processing und Managemfilt. 1980, Vol. 16, No. 6. pp. 305-311. 2 fig.
The impact of telecommunications technology on the information profession is reviewed. The potential for the application of ‘information intelligence’ using the considerable know-how of the information professional -- to new- technologies is exnlored. It is concluded that there is much ‘more to be gained from the application of professional knowledge to systems design than to the perfection of searching techniques on behalf of end users. 8. Feature Comparison of an En-House Information Retrieval Svstem with a Commercial Search Service. 2. 0. Boyle and A. P. Miller (Marathon Oil Company. Denver Research Center). Journal qf tilr Americarl Societyfor Iqformation Science, September 1980, Vol. 31, No. 5. pp. 309-317, 6 tables. bibl. (16 ref.). A commercially available oniir,e search service was used as a standard for comparative searching and evaluation of an mhouse information system based or. automatic icdexing. System features were identified and evaiuared on the basis CCtheir usefu;ness in various kinds of searching. their case in Impiementanon. and how [he> are :ntiuencsd ‘~1, diferences in user type or speC!fiC .i?res
appikattoc, oi
the
The Journal. ixorporarina :he Trans. uctions of the Churtereri insc:rurc ofP:jrent Agents. becember 1980. Voi.
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86-92. bibl. (15 ref.1
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Abstracts, Abstracting, Classification
Literature Review
Scanned
by Country
of
Federal Republic Germany I DE i Nachrichten fur Dokumentatlon International Classification Information Systems France i FR ) Information et Documentation Science de 1’Information et Documentation (Bulletin SignalCtique) Documentaliste 01. Informatique Gernian Democraric informatik Der Neuerer
Library
Republic
I DD i
science with a slant to documentation
Socier (iniof7 I SC’ ) Nauchno-teckhnicheskaya Referativnyi Zhurnal Voprosy Izobretatel’stca
Indexing
and
1. The Use of Titles for Automatic Document Classification. K. A. Hamill & A. Zamora (CAS, Columbus, USA). Journal
Abstracts and reviews collected by the International Bureau of WIPO during a scanning of the journals contained in the following list.
List of Periodicals Pub&cation
1981.
Informatsiya
L’niied Kwqdom i GE) Journal of Documentation The InformatIon Scientist Information Systems ASLIB Proceedings Information Processing and Management C’nired Srutes 01 America i L’S) Information Hotlme APLA Bulletin Internat;onal Micrographic Congress Journal Micrographics Newsletter The Journal of Micrographics Special Libraries Journal of the American Society for Information Science Computer Chemlcai & Engmeering New Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences Data Processmg Library of Congress Information Bulletin Online Review CHEMTECH [nrerrlarwnal Publications UNISIST Newsletter, published by UNESCO Bulletin de I’UNESCO ti l’intention des bibliothCques Industrial Development Abstracts-UNIDO Industrial Information System (INDISI IS0 Bulletin International Forum on information and Do-
of the American Society for Information Science, November 1980, Vol. 3, No. 6. pp.
396-402,
2 tables, 1 fig., bibl. (15 ref.)
An ex erimental computer program has been Beveloped to classify documents according to the 80 sections and five major section groupings of Chemical Abstracts (CA). TIhe pro&am uses pattern recognition techniques supplemented by heuristics. During the ‘training’ phase, words from pre-classified documents are selected, and the probability of occurrence of each word in-each section of CA is computed and stored in a reference dictionarv. The ‘classification’ phase matches each wdrd of a document title against the dictionary and assigns a section number to the document using weights derived from the probabilities in the dictionary. 2. Graphical Representation of Chemical Structures in Chemical Abstracts Publications. A. L. Goodson (Chemical Abstracts Service. Columbus. Ohio). Jouruai of Chemical Infirmation ahd Co&purer Sd ewes, November 1980, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp.
212-217,
18 fig., bibl. (9 ref.)
The main features of the comprehensive formatting guidlines used for creating chemical st&ture diagrams for Chemicd Abstracts Service (CAS) uublications are described. The guidelines here designed to standardize format as much as possible and to conserve column space in publications. Methods used for reducing crowding in diagrams are described. 3. Indexing Consistency, Quality and Efficiency. L. Rolling (Commission of the European Communities, Luxembourg). Information Processirlg and Management, 1981, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 69-76. 9 tables.
bibl. (2 ref.). Indexing quality determmes whether the information content of an indexed document is accurately represented. Indexing effectiveness measures whether an indexed document is correctly retrieved every rime it is relevant to a query. Measurement of these criteria is cumbersome and costly: database producers therefore prefer mterindexer consistency as a measure of indexing quality or effectiveness. The present article assesses the validity of this substitution in various environments. 4. CAB Abstracts: a global view. B. Cronin (ASLIB Research & Consultancy Division). ASUB Proceedings, NovemberDecember !980, Vol. 32, No. 11!12. pp. 425-437, 4 fig., 4 tables. bibl. (31 ref.j Summarizes the findings of a recent survey of user reactions to the abstracting services produced by the Commonwealth .4gricuItural Bureaux {CAB ). 5.
The readabilitv
and information content and old law abridgements. L. Blakeborough & C. Oppenheim
of new law abstricts
the abstracts and the abridgements of United Kingdom patent documents have been measured and compared with the readability and information content of the full text of the documents themselves. Abridgements were found more difficult to read than abstracts, whilst both types of surrogates were more difficult to read than the full text. The information content of abridgements was judged to be higher than that of abstracts. Abstracts from Chemical Abstracts and from Biological Abstracts were judged to be easier to read than either the surrogates or the full texts. 6. History of Abstracting at Chemical Abstracts Service. Dale B. Baker et al. (Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio). JOWMI/ of Cilemicai Irgormation anti Computer Sciences. November 1980, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 193-201, 6 fig., bibl. (26 ref.). The evolution of abstracts and abstracting for Chemical Abstracts (CA) from 1907 to the present is traced. The growth of scientific publishing, changes in the content, form, format. national origin. and language of primary documents, the shift from a large corps of volunteer abstracters to inhouse document analyst, and the transition to modern computer processing, have all affected the preparation and publication of CA abstracts
Retrieval
Systems
7. Seventh Cranfield International Conference on Mechanised Information Storage and Retrieval Systems. The potential impact of telecommunication networks on information systems intelligence. B. Mahon (Euronet Launch Team, Luxembourg). 1,~ _formation Processing und Managemfilt. 1980, Vol. 16, No. 6. pp. 305-311. 2 fig.
The impact of telecommunications technology on the information profession is reviewed. The potential for the application of ‘information intelligence’ using the considerable know-how of the information professional -- to new- technologies is exnlored. It is concluded that there is much ‘more to be gained from the application of professional knowledge to systems design than to the perfection of searching techniques on behalf of end users. 8. Feature Comparison of an En-House Information Retrieval Svstem with a Commercial Search Service. 2. 0. Boyle and A. P. Miller (Marathon Oil Company. Denver Research Center). Journal qf tilr Americarl Societyfor Iqformation Science, September 1980, Vol. 31, No. 5. pp. 309-317, 6 tables. bibl. (16 ref.). A commercially available oniir,e search service was used as a standard for comparative searching and evaluation of an mhouse information system based or. automatic icdexing. System features were identified and evaiuared on the basis CCtheir usefu;ness in various kinds of searching. their case in Impiementanon. and how [he> are :ntiuencsd ‘~1, diferences in user type or speC!fiC .i?res
appikattoc, oi
the
The Journal. ixorporarina :he Trans. uctions of the Churtereri insc:rurc ofP:jrent Agents. becember 1980. Voi.
iir,iinr
86-92. bibl. (15 ref.1
‘tlr :he In-nouse i~\wx :‘\ sten:.
59:s. xre
~nsrrnction. tivxonary
xe:!
iC
Some
:om,zkrcial
2e
common syszem.
cser-spec!fied dispiay;
and
feasucn
urml
t5 for-
rrLmcat.ion.
unnedessarq 3r impracticai s\stem. Xn deslenlcs the IXi therefore. dztat,ed ccnside-