Levels of the Machine-Aided Indexing Continuum:
- No computer support
- use of computer limited to word-processing, data entry
- Computer support to clerical activities
- computer compiles terms from documents
- computer corrects spelling
- access to online thesaurus
- cut and paste functions
- interactive
- Computer support for quality control
- offers Level 2 functions plus
- controlled vocabulary verification
- integrated special dictionaries
- computer offers term substitution suggestions
- interactive
- Computer support for intellectual activities
- offers Level 3 functionality plus
- computer performs sophisticated analyses of documents
- computer automatically suggests candidate terms
- computer eforces indexing rules
- interactive
- Automatic indexing
- similar to Level 4 except
- non-interactive batch processing of documents
Derived from:
Hodge, G. M. 1994. Computer assisted database indexing: the state-of-the-art.
Indexer 19 (1):23-27.
Page creator: J. Stephen Downie
Page created: 24 September 1997
Page updated: 25 September 1997