Document (#704)

Author

Rada, R.
Mili, H.
Letourneau, G.
Johnston, D.

Title

Creating and evaluating entry terms

Source

Journal of documentation. 44(1988), S.19-41

Year

1988

Abstract

An indexing language is made more accessible to searchers and indexers by the presence of entry terms or near-synonyms. This paper first presents an evaluation of existing entry terms and then presents and tests a strategy for creating entry terms. The key tools in the evaluation of the entry terms are documents already indexed into the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and an automatic indexer ...

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MeSH

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