Table of contents
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF NATURAL LANGUAGE IN SCIENCE INDEXING AND RETRIEVAL
K. BHATTACHARYYAThis paper examines the implications of the findings of evaluative tests regarding the retrieval performance of natural language in various subject fields. It suggests parallel…
109
A STUDY OF CURRENT AWARENESS PUBLICATIONS IN THE NEUROSCIENCES
F.W. LANCASTERMailed questionnaires were used to study the use of two printed current awareness devices in specialized areas of the neurosciences, one manually prepared and the other a product…
75
A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF RETRIEVAL TESTS: A BAYESIAN APPROACH
S.E. ROBERTSON, D. TEATHERA model is proposed to explain the retrieval characteristics of an IR system. It is assumed that, for a given system and a given question, there are probabilities of retrieving…
52
PROGRESS IN DOCUMENTATION: ‘obsolescence’ and changes in the use of literature with time
MAURICE B. LINE, A. SANDISONThe term ‘obsolescence’ occurs frequently in the literature of librarianship and information science. In numerous papers we are told how most published literature becomes obsolete…
633
ISSN:
0022-0418Online date, start – end:
1945Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditor:
- Prof David Bawden