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such as "AND, OR, NOT." "AND" is normally unnecessary as most search engines infer it. "OR" will search for results with one search term or another or both. "NOT" eliminates a word or phrase from the search, getting rid of any results that include it. Multiple words can also be enclosed in quotation
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are designed to search for words anywhere in a document—the title, the body, and so on. This being the case, a keyword can be any term that exists within the document. However, priority is given to words that occur in the title, words that recur numerous times, and words that are explicitly assigned
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Author keywords are an integral part of literature. Many journals and databases provide access to index terms made by authors of the respective articles. How qualified the provider is decides the quality of both indexer-provided index terms and author-provided index terms. The quality of these two
71:, which are directly visible and can be assigned by non-experts. Index terms can consist of a word, phrase, or alphanumerical term. They are created by analyzing the document either manually with 63:, which is the function by which libraries collect, organize and disseminate documents. They are used as keywords to retrieve documents in an information system, for instance, a catalog or a 90:(a, an, the) and conjunctions (and, or, but) are not treated as keywords because it's inefficient. Almost every English-language site on the Internet has the article " 194: 356: 102:
such as "the" and "a" from its indexes for several years, but then re-introduced them, making certain types of precise search possible again.
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or more sophisticated methods of keyword extraction. Index terms can either come from a controlled vocabulary or be freely assigned.
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types of index terms is of research interest, particularly in relation to
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as keywords within the coding. Index terms can be further refined using
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in 1948. It is in particular used about a preferred term from a
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marks to turn the individual index terms into a specific index
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language (SKOS) provides a way to express index terms with
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The intellectual foundation of information organization
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http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/help/clio/keyword.html
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Index

Subject heading
information retrieval
controlled vocabulary
bibliographic records
bibliographic control
search engine
tags
subject indexing
automatic indexing
search index
articles
Google
stop words
Calvin Mooers
thesaurus
Simple Knowledge Organization System
Resource Description Framework
Semantic Web
web search engines
Boolean operators
information retrieval
Canadian Subject Headings
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Medical Subject Headings
Polythematic Structured Subject Heading System
Subject Headings Authority File
Index (publishing)
Keyword density
Subject (documents)
Tag (metadata)

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