Journal of Documentation: Volume 47 Issue 4

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SEARCHING FOR HISTORICAL WORD FORMS IN TEXT DATABASES USING SPELLING‐CORRECTION METHODS: REVERSE ERROR AND PHONETIC CODING METHODS

HEATHER J. ROGERS, PETER WILLETT

An increasing volume of historical text is being converted into machine‐readable form so as to allow database searches to be carried out. The age of the material in these…

RHETORICAL STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES: THE CASE FOR ARGUMENTATIONAL ANALYSIS IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

JOOST G. KIRCZ

In this paper the extent to which modern indexing and information retrieval research meets the needs and requirements of different types of readers is criticised. A review of the…

HYPERTEXT AND THE LITERARY DOCUMENT

PAUL MORGAN

The concept of a single, ‘authoritative text’ for literary works has been recognised for some years as unrealistic, and their polytextual nature accepted as a more authentic basis…

THE IMPORTANCE OF FACTORS THAT ARE NOT DOCUMENT ATTRIBUTES IN THE ORGANISATION OF PERSONAL DOCUMENTS

BARBARA H. KWAZacute;NIK

The purpose of the study was to investigate and describe the way in which people organise documents in their offices. Eight university faculty members were asked to describe their…

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ISSN:

0022-0418

Online date, start – end:

1945

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof David Bawden