Back-of-the-Book Index

Context:
- It must contain 2 Tuples of Word Forms and Word Mention Location.
- It can cluster the 2-Tuples be similarity.
- It can be created by a Back-of-the-Book Index Creation Task.
See: Document Word Vector, Concordance.

References

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_(publishing)
- An index is a list of words or phrases ('headings') and associated pointers ('locators') to where useful material relating to that heading can be found in a document. In a traditional back-of-the-book index the headings will include names of people, places and events, and concepts selected by a person as being relevant and of interest to a possible reader of the book. The pointers are typically page numbers, paragraph numbers or section numbers. In a library catalog the words are authors, titles, subject headings, etc., and the pointers are call numbers. Internet search engines, such as Google, and full text searching help provide access to information but are not as selective as an index, as they provide non-relevant links, and may miss relevant information if it is not phrased in exactly the way they expect.

http://www.db.dk/bh/Lifeboat_KO/CONCEPTS/back_of_the_book_indexi.htm
- Diodato (1994) made a survey of 255 librarians and college professors and obtained their opinions of three elements of back of book indexes. Both groups overwhelmingly preferred line-by-line subheadings to the run-on arrangement, even though many books use the latter format. Almost all librarians preferred word-by-word alphabetization to the letter-by-letter method, but only about two thirds of the professors shared this preference. Strongest disagreement between the two groups occurred when most of the librarians preferred see references to duplicate entries, while most professors selected duplicate entries instead of see references. The article concludes that indexers and developers of indexing standards should consider the preferences of index users.

http://www.waikato.ac.nz/library/learning/glossary.shtml
- index
  - i) A back-of-the-book index is an alphabetical detailed list of the names, places, and subjects discussed in a book and the numbers of the pages on which each subject is treated.
  - ii) A periodical index is an alphabetical listing of magazine or journal articles by subject, and sometimes by author. Most periodical indexes cover a specific topical area or discipline.

V. Diodato. (1994). User preferences for features in back of book indexes. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 45(7), 529-536.

V. Diodato, and G. Gandt. (1991). Back of book indexes and the characteristics of author and nonauthor indexing: Report of an exploratory study. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 42(5), 341-350.

P. G. B. Enser. (1985). Automatic classification of book material represented by back-of-the-book index. Journal of Documentation, 41(3), 135-155.