Rachel Heery wrote:
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> On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Stu Weibel wrote:
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> > Here all this time I thought that DESCRIPTION was BETTER than SUBJECT
> > because it was in use elsewhere for roughly the same purpose.
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> I (and a few others I believe!) promoted inclusion of a description
> element, mainly because most internet search services try to include some
> sort of free text description/abstract; and certainly all subject services
> using ROADS include descriptions in their records.
Yes, phrase searching should be facilitated somehow; it yields in many
cases high precision search results, while you do not have to search in
the full text (which is by nature less condensed than an
abstract/description).
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Frank A. Roos ([log in to unmask] http://www.cwi.nl/~faroos/)
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