Document (#14668)

Author
Brown, M.E.
Title
By any other name : accounting for failure in the naming of subject categories
Source
Library and information science research. 17(1995) no.4, S.347-385
Year
1995
Abstract
Research shows that 65-80% of subject search terms fail to match the appropriate subject heading and one third to one half of subject searches result in no references being retrieved. Examines the subject search terms geberated by 82 school and college students in Princeton, NJ, evaluated the match between the named terms and the expected subject headings, proposes an explanation for match failures in relation to 3 invariant properties common to all search terms: concreteness, complexity, and syndeticity. Suggests that match failure is a consequence of developmental naming patterns and that these patterns can be overcome through the use of metacognitive naming skills
Theme
Retrievalstudien

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