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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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1990
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ420343 |
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Table of Contents:
- A Comparison between Free Language and Controlled Language Indexing and Searching. Rowley, J. E. Comparative Analysis Computer Assisted Instruction Databases Foreign Countries Higher Education Indexing Information Retrieval Library Education Relevance (Information Retrieval) Research Needs Search Strategies Subject Index Terms Thesauri Undergraduate Students Describes study conducted with British undergraduate library science students that compared natural language indexing and searching with controlled language searching on a computerized database. The use of the ERIC Thesaurus and Sears List of Subject Headings is explained, recall and precision measures are reported, and further research is suggested. (six references) (LRW)