Re: Indexing information

[Chuck Banks <chuck -at- ASL -dot- DL -dot- NEC -dot- COM>]

LaVonna, et al:

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BOOKS ON INDEXING?

Knight, G. N. Indexing, The Art Of. Allen & Unwin, 1979.

Lancaster, F. W. Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice.
U of Illinois Press, 1991.

Lancaster, F. W. Vocabulary Control for Information Retrieval,
2nd ed. Information resources Press, 1986

Wellisch, H. Indexing and Abstracting, an International
Bibliography ABC-Clio, 1980.

Wellisch, H. Indexing from A to Z. H. W. Wilson, 1991.


WHAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT AUTOMATIC INDEXING?
Books:
Salton and McGill Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval

Salton, Automatic Text Processing

Van Rijsbergen Information Retrieval
Jones, Karen Spark Information Retrieval Experiment

Papers:

Bell, C. and Jones, K. "Back-of-the-book Indexing: A Case for the
Application of Artificial Intelligence",  Informatics 5, ASLIB
Pub., pp. 155-161, 1979

Bennion, B. "Performance Testing of a Book and its Index as an
Information Retrieval System", JASIS, pp. 265-270, July 1970

Borko, H. "Experiments in Book Indexing by Computer" Information
Storage and Retrieval, 6:5)16, 1970

Dillon, M. and McDonald, J. "Fully Automatic Book Indexing"
Journal of Documentation 39(1):135-154, 1983

Dion, M. Thesaurus-Based Automatic Book Indexing", Information
Processing and Management, 81(4):167-178, 1982

Salton, G. "Syntactic Approaches to Automatic Book Indexing",
Proceedings of the 26th ACL, pp. 204-210, 1988


WHAT SOFTWARE DO INDEXERS USE?
(All of these are for DOS machines...no Macs)

IN>SORT
Kensa Software
P.O. Box 4415
Northbrook, IL 60065
(708) 559-0297

Macrex
Bayside Indexing Service
P.O. Box 3051
Daly City,  CA 95015-0051
(415) 524-4195
FAX: (415) 757-1567

Cindex
Indexing Research
Box 18609
Rochester, New York 14618-0609
(716) 461-5530
FAX: (716) 442-3924


COURSES OR TRAINING FOR INDEXERS (OUTSIDE OF LIBRARY SCHOOLS)?

Graduate School of the USDA
Correspondence Programs
Room 1114, South Agriculture Building
14th St. and Independence Ave. SW
Washington, DC 20250
(202) 720-7131
Tuition: $269.00 (includes all materials)


PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES/ORGANIZATIONS FOR INDEXERS?
(this question was not actually asked..but here's the answer
anyway)

American Society of Indexers (ASI)
P.O. Box 386
Port Aransas TX 78373
(512) 749)4052
FAX: (512) 749-4052

Indexing and Abstracting Society of Canada
Box 744 Station F
Toronto Ontario
Canada M4Y 2N6

National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services
(NFAIS)
1429 Walnut Street
Philadelphia PA 19102
(215) 563)2406
FAX: (215) 563-2848

Society of Indexers (SI)
16 Green Road Birchington, England
CT79JZ

Australian Society of Indexers (AusSI)
GPO Box 1251L, Melbourne
Victoria 3001, Australia

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Best of luck!

Chuck Banks
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