Research on Automatic Classification of Documents in Library Environment: A Literature Review
Sanjay K. Desale, Rajendra Madhavrao Kumbhar · KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION · 2013
This paper aims to provide an overview of automatic classification research, which focuses on issues related to the automatic classification of documents in a library environment.The review covers literature published in mainstream library and information science studies.The review was done on literature published in both academic and professional LIS journals and other documents.This review reveals that basically three types of research are being done on automatic classification: 1) hierarchical classification using different library classification schemes, 2) text categorization and document categorization using different type of classifiers with or without using training documents, and 3) automatic bibliographic classification.Predominantly this research is directed towards solving problems of organization of digital documents in an online environment.However, very little research is devoted towards solving the problems of arrangement of physical documents.