MONO91
NIST Monograph 91: Automatic Indexing: A State-of-the-Art Report
Appendix B: Progress and Prospects in Mechanized Indexing
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Mary Elizabeth Stevens
National Bureau of Standards
He may provide a standing-order interest profile with respect to patterns of his own
selection criteria, with weighting indications as to relative degrees of interest. Dynamic
re-adjustments to standing requests and weightings can be made in accordance both with
his responses to notifications and with any more -like-this1 requests received from him.
System accounting and usage statistics can provide a feedback warning system as to the
adequacy of his selection-criteria set and enable him to initiate re[OCRerr]processing of those
documents in the collection likely to be of current interest to him.
We must close, however, with a caveat: if machines have not yet mastered us, neither
have we yet the requirements of the machine to the degree of advanced planning that will be
required, especially for those information processing operations involving the analysis of
content and not merely the manipulation of records: for here we are faced with the great
challenges of human communication, human decision-making, and human[OCRerr]problem-solving.
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