A note on the evaluation of methods for systematically abbreviating english words
In a recent paper (1), Bourne and Ford have com- pared a set of alternative schemes for abbreviating English words. The method of evaluation used was to deter- mine the conditions under which (and to what extent) each of the methods preserved the distinctions which exist between the words in the dat...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | American Documentation 1963-01, Vol.14 (1), p.26-27 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | In a recent paper (1), Bourne and Ford have com- pared a set of alternative schemes for abbreviating English words. The method of evaluation used was to deter- mine the conditions under which (and to what extent) each of the methods preserved the distinctions which exist between the words in the data base. If we speak in terms of the type-token distinction between word forms and word occurrences, then the abbreviation methods... |
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| ISSN: | 0096-946X 0002-8231 1936-6108 1097-4571 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/asi.5090140104 |