Glossary of terms relating to thesauri and other forms of structured vocabulary for information retrieval

post-coordinate indexing

post-coordinate indexing

system of indexing in which the subject of a document is analysed into its constituent concepts by an indexer but the preferred terms so allocated are not combined until they are selected by a user at the search stage

e.g. when using post-coordinate indexing, a manual on bicycle repair might be assigned the three separate preferred terms

  • bicycles
  • repairing
  • instruction books

Someone searching for such a manual would compose a search statement such as (bicycles AND repairing AND instruction books). The document would also be retrieved by a search for (bicycles AND instruction books) or for any one or more of the preferred terms. Compare pre-coordinate indexing.

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07-Mar-2011
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