Abstracts and Abstracting in Knowledge Discovery.
Maria Vaz Pinto, F. Wilfrid Lancaster · Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) · 1999
VARIOUSLEVELS OF CRITERIA FOR JUDGING the quality of abstracts and abstracting are presented.Requirements for abstracts to be read by humans are compared with requirements for those to be searched by computer.It is concluded that the wide availability of complete text in electronic form does not reduce the value of abstracts for information retrieval activities even in such more sophisticated applications as knowledge discovery.