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The distinction is drawn between assigned and derived indexing. The problem of evaluating indexes is addressed. It is observed that certain properties of the indexing graph, and the act of indexing, can be related to desirable retrieval properties such as precision and recall. The capabilities of humans and computers at the task of indexing are outlined and compared. The common view that there are, and can be, no theories of indexing and that indexing cannot be taught is discussed. The phenomenon of generalized synonymy—that we can make indefinitely many paraphrases of a text—is introduced and derived concept indexing is suggested as the appropriate response to this. The phenomenon of generalized homography—that any text under-determines its conceptual content—is introduced. There is discussion of algorithmic, or automatic, approaches to the indexing subtasks of producing the indexing graph or schedule, annotation, and clustering.

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Frické, M. (2012). Indexing/Annotation. In: Logic and the Organization of Information. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3088-9_7

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