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Milstead, J.L.: Thesauri in a full-text world (1998)
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- Abstract
- Despite early claims to the contemporary, thesauri continue to find use as access tools for information in the full-text environment. Their mode of use is changing, but this change actually represents an expansion rather than a contrdiction of their utility. Thesauri and similar vocabulary tools can complement full-text access by aiding users in focusing their searches, by supplementing the linguistic analysis of the text search engine, and even by serving as one of the tools used by the linguistic engine for its analysis. While human indexing contunues to be used for many databases, the trend is to increase the use of machine aids for this purpose. All machine-aided indexing (MAI) systems rely on thesauri as the basis for term selection. In the 21st century, the balance of effort between human and machine will change at both input and output, but thesauri will continue to play an important role for the foreseeable future
- Date
- 22. 9.1997 19:16:05
- Imprint
- Urbana-Champaign, IL : Illinois University at Urbana-Champaign, Graduate School of Library and Information Science
- Source
- Visualizing subject access for 21st century information resources: Papers presented at the 1997 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, 2-4 Mar 1997, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ed.: P.A. Cochrane et al
- Theme
- Konzeption und Anwendung des Prinzips Thesaurus
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Shiri, A.A.; Revie, C.; Chowdhury, G.: Thesaurus-enhanced search interfaces (2002)
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- Source
- Journal of information science. 28(2002) no.2, S.111-122
- Theme
- Konzeption und Anwendung des Prinzips Thesaurus
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Lambert, N.: Of thesauri and computers : reflections on the need for thesauri (1995)
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- Source
- Searcher. 3(1995) no.8, S.18-22
- Theme
- Konzeption und Anwendung des Prinzips Thesaurus
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Mu, X.; Lu, K.; Ryu, H.: Explicitly integrating MeSH thesaurus help into health information retrieval systems : an empirical user study (2014)
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- Abstract
- When consumers search for health information, a major obstacle is their unfamiliarity with the medical terminology. Even though medical thesauri such as the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and related tools (e.g., the MeSH Browser) were created to help consumers find medical term definitions, the lack of direct and explicit integration of these help tools into a health retrieval system prevented them from effectively achieving their objectives. To explore this issue, we conducted an empirical study with two systems: One is a simple interface system supporting query-based searching; the other is an augmented system with two new components supporting MeSH term searching and MeSH tree browsing. A total of 45 subjects were recruited to participate in the study. The results indicated that the augmented system is more effective than the simple system in terms of improving user-perceived topic familiarity and question-answer performance, even though we did not find users spend more time on the augmented system. The two new MeSH help components played a critical role in participants' health information retrieval and were found to allow them to develop new search strategies. The findings of the study enhanced our understanding of consumers' search behaviors and shed light on the design of future health information retrieval systems.
- Source
- Information processing and management. 50(2014) no.1, S.24-40
- Theme
- Konzeption und Anwendung des Prinzips Thesaurus
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Chan, L.M.; Hodges, T.: Entering the millennium : a new century for LCSH (2000)
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- Abstract
- Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), a system originally designed as a tool for subject access to the Library's own collection in the late nineteenth century, has become, in the course of the last century, the main subject retrieval tool in library catalogs throughout the United States and in many other countries. It is one of the largest non-specialized controlled vocabularies in the world. As LCSH enters a new century, it faces an information environment that has undergone vast changes from what had prevailed when LCSH began, or, indeed, from its state in the early days of the online age. In order to continue its mission and to be useful in spheres outside library catalogs as well, LCSH must adapt to the multifarious environment. One possible approach is to adopt a series of scalable and flexible syntax and application rules to meet the needs of different user communities
- Date
- 27. 5.2001 16:22:21
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Anderson, J.D.; Pérez-Carballo, J.: Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) (2009)
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- Date
- 27. 8.2011 14:22:13
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- Encyclopedia of library and information sciences. 3rd ed. Ed.: M.J. Bates
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Chen, H.; Yim, T.; Fye, D.: Automatic thesaurus generation for an electronic community system (1995)
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- Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 46(1995) no.3, S.175-193
- Theme
- Konzeption und Anwendung des Prinzips Thesaurus
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Bates, M.J.: Subject access in online catalogs: a design model (1986)
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- Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 37(1986), S.357-367
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Piternick, A.B.: Vocabularies for online subject searching (1990)
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- Encyclopedia of library and information science. Vol.45, [=Suppl.10]
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Zeng, L.: Achieving compatibility of indexing languages in online access environment (1992)
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- Encyclopedia of library and information science. Vol.50, [=Suppl.13]
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Miller, U.; Teitelbaum, R.: Pre-coordination and post-coordination : past and future (2002)
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- Abstract
- This article deals with the meaningful processing of information in relation to two systems of Information processing: pre-coordination and post-coordination. The different approaches are discussed, with emphasis an the need for a controlled vocabulary in information retrieval. Assigned indexing, which employs a controlled vocabulary, is described in detail. Types of indexing language can be divided into two broad groups - those using pre-coordinated terms and those depending an post-coordination. They represent two different basic approaches in processing and Information retrieval. The historical development of these two approaches is described, as well as the two tools that apply to these approaches: thesauri and subject headings.
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Hjoerland, B.; Kyllesbech Nielsen, L.: Subject access points in electronic retrieval (2001)
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- Annual review of information science and technology. 35(2001), S.249-298
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Stone, A.T.: Up-ending Cutter's pyramid : the case for making subject references to broader terms (1996)
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- 22. 4.1997 20:43:23
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Davies, R.: Thesaurus-aided searching in search and retrieval protocols (1996)
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- Theme
- Konzeption und Anwendung des Prinzips Thesaurus
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Gomez, L.; Lochbaum, C.C.; Landauer, T.K.: All the right words: finding what you want as an function of richness of indexing vocabulary (1990)
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- Journal of the American Society for information Science. 41(1990) no.8, S.547-559
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Cochrane, P.A.: Indexing and searching thesauri, the Janus or Proteus of information retrieval (1992)
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Frommeyer, J.: Chronological terms and period subdivisions in LCSH, RAMEAU, and RSWK : development of an integrative model for time retrieval across various online catalogs (2004)
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- 10. 9.2000 17:38:22
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Svenonius, E.: Design of controlled vocabularies in the context of emerging technologies (1988)
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- Abstract
- Delineates on the changing role of vocabulary control devices such as classification, subject headings, and thesaurus. Identifies the basic issue in the design and development of these devices and their role in the changing information technology. The paper identifies the differentiations needed in the new roles of these devices in data base technology
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- Library science with a slant to documentation and information studies. 25(1988), S.215-227
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Julien, C.-A.; Tirilly, P.; Leide, J.E.; Guastavino, C.: Using the LCSH hierarchy to browse a collection (2012)
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- Abstract
- The Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) is a subject structure used to index large collections throughout the world. Browsing a collection through LCSH is difficult using current on-line tools in part because they are inadequately integrated with information collections. Users of these LCSH browsing tools are expected to find a promising LCSH string before using it to search for the information itself; many users do not have the patience for such a two-step process. This article proposes a method to fully integrate a specific collection in its subset of the LCSH hierarchy in order to facilitate LCSH browsing as well as information retrieval. Techniques are described to match LCSH strings assigned to the collection with an established string from the authority records, and build their specific LCSH hierarchy. The resulting subset of LCSH structure is described in terms of its size and broader/narrower term statistics, and implications for browsing and information retrieval are discussed. The results of this research have implications for institutions wishing to further capitalize on existing LCSH organization investments for the purpose of subject browsing and information retrieval.
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Julien, C.-A.; Guastavino, C.; Bouthillier, F.: Capitalizing on information organization and information visualization for a new-generation catalogue (2012)
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- Abstract
- Subject searching is difficult with traditional text-based online public access library catalogues (OPACs), and the next-generation discovery layers are keyword searching and result filtering tools that offer little support for subject browsing. Next-generation OPACs ignore the rich network of relations offered by controlled subject vocabulary, which can facilitate subject browsing. A new generation of OPACs could leverage existing information-organization investments and offer online searchers a novel browsing and searching environment. This is a case study of the design and development of a virtual reality subject browsing and information retrieval tool. The functional prototype shows that the Library of Congress subject headings (LCSH) can be shaped into a useful and usable tree structure serving as a visual metaphor that contains a real world collection from the domain of science and engineering. Formative tests show that users can effectively browse the LCSH tree and carve it up based on their keyword search queries. This study uses a complex information-organization structure as a defining characteristic of an OPAC that goes beyond the standard keyword search model, toward the cutting edge of online search tools.
