Indexing Task

An Indexing Task is an information processing task that requires the creation of a data index (that can facilitate a data search task).

• Context:
  • Input: an Artifact Set.
    • optional: Background Knowledge.
  • output: an Index Data Structure.
  • It can range from being a Free Indexing Task to being a Controlled Indexing Task.
  • It can be solved by an Indexing System that applies an (Indexing Algorithm.
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• Example(s):
  • any Document Indexing Task.
  • any Image Indexing Task.
  • any Audio Indexing Task.
• See: Information Retrieval Task.

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References

2009

• (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=indexing
  • S: (n) indexing (the act of classifying and providing an index in order to make items easier to retrieve)
  • S: (v) index (list in an index)
  • S: (v) index (provide with an index) "index the book"
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2008

• (Dextre Clarke et al., 2008) ⇒ Stella Dextre Clarke, Alan Gilchrist, Ron Davies and Leonard Will. (2008). “Glossary of Terms Relating to Thesauri and Other Forms of Structured Vocabulary for Information Retrieval." Willpower Information
  • indexing
    • intellectual analysis of the subject matter of a document to identify the concepts represented in it, and allocation of the corresponding preferred terms to allow the information to be retrieved
    • The term "subject indexing" is often used for this concept, but within a context that does not deal with other elements such as authors or dates, "indexing" is sufficient.----

2005

• (ANSI Z39.19, 2005) ⇒ ANSI. (2005). “ANSI/NISO Z39.19 - Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies." ANSI.
  • QUOTE: "indexing
    • 1. A method by which terms or subject headings from a controlled vocabulary are selected by a human or computer to represent the concepts in or attributes of a content object. The terms may or may not occur in the content object.
    • 2. An operation intended to represent the results of the content analysis of a document by means of a controlled indexing language or by natural language. [ISO 5127/1]
• (Woodley, 2005b) ⇒ Mary S. Woodley, Gail Clement, and Pete Winn. (2005). “DCMI Glossary." Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.
  • indexing.
    • The process of evaluating information entities and creating terms that aid in finding and accessing the entity. Index terms may be in natural language or controlled vocabulary or a classification notation.

2001

• (Jacquemin, 2001) ⇒ Christian Jacquemin. (2001). “Spotting and Discovering Terms Through Natural Language Processing." MIT Press. ISBN:0262100851
  • Automatic indexing: Automatic indexing is the association of descriptors to documents for the purpose of information retrieval.

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