On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Chris Korycinski wrote:
> On 18 Nov 2003 at 17:48, Stevan Harnad wrote:
>
> > I don't know of any evidence that inverted full-text boolean search is
> > any less effective in one field than another. (Does anyone have any
> > such evidence?)
> I don't know about hard evidence, but my wife works as a professional
> indexer in the humanities (all the top scholars ask for her ! She isn't
> ever short of work) and indexing this style of book makes a joke out of
> keyword searching or any form of inverted file.
But we are not talking here about books or book-indexing! We are talking
about the annual 2.5 million full-text refereed-journal articles.
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#26.Classification
Stevan Harnad
Received on Wed Nov 19 2003 - 15:17:22 GMT