Document (#14667)

Author

Brown, M.E.

Title

By any other name : accounting for failure in the naming of subject categories

Source

Library and information science research. 17(1995) no.4, S.347-385

Year

1995

Abstract

Research shows that 65-80% of subject search terms fail to match the appropriate subject heading and one third to one half of subject searches result in no references being retrieved. Examines the subject search terms geberated by 82 school and college students in Princeton, NJ, evaluated the match between the named terms and the expected subject headings, proposes an explanation for match failures in relation to 3 invariant properties common to all search terms: concreteness, complexity, and syndeticity. Suggests that match failure is a consequence of developmental naming patterns and that these patterns can be overcome through the use of metacognitive naming skills

Theme

Retrievalstudien

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