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Finally, every year a volume in the series Annual Review of Information Science and Technology is edited by C. A. Cuadra. Each volume attempts to cover the new work published in information storage and retrieval for that year. As a source of references to the current literature it is unsurpassed. But they are mainly aimed at the practitioner and as such are a little difficult to read for the uninitiated.

References

1. SHANNON, C.E. and WEAVER, W., The Mathematical Theory of Communication, University of Illinois Press, Urbana (1964).

2. LANCASTER, F.W., Information Retrieval Systems: Characteristics, Testing and Evaluation, Wiley, New York (1968).

3. WINOGRAD, T., Understanding Natural Language, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh (1972).

4. MINSKY, M., Semantic Information Processing, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1968).

5. BAR-HILLEL, Y., Language and Information. 'Selected Essays on their Theory and Application, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts (1964).

6. BARBER, A.S., BARRACLOUGH, E.D. and GRAY, W.A. 'On-line information retrieval as a scientist's tool', Information Storage and Retrieval, 9, 429-44- (1973).

7. McCARN, D.B. and LEITER, J., 'On-line services in medicine and beyond', Science, 181, 318-324 (1973).

8. CLEVERDON, C.W., 'Progress in documentation. Evaluation of information retrieval systems', Journal of Documentation, 26, 55-67, (1970).

9. SALTON, G., 'Automatic text analysis', Science, 168, 335-343 (1970).

10. LUHN, H.P., 'A statistical approach to mechanised encoding and searching of library information', IBM Journal of Research and Development, 1, 309-317 (1957).

11. MARON, M.E. and KUHNS, J.L., 'On relevance, probabilistic indexing and information retrieval', Journal of the ACM, 7, 216-244 (1960).

12. STILES, H.F., 'The association factor in information retrieval', Journal of the ACM, 8, 271-279 (1961).

13. STEVENS, M.E., GIULIANO, V.E. and HEILPRIN, L.B., Statistical Association Methods for Mechanised Documentation, National Bureau of Standards, Washington (1964).

14. SPARCK JONES, K., Automatic Keyword Classification for Information Retrieval, Butterworths, London (1971).

15. SALTON, G., Paper given at the 1972 NATO Advanced Study Institute for on-line mechanised information retrieval systems (1972).

16. GOOD, I.J., 'Speculations concerning information retrieval', Research Report PC-78, IBM Research Centre, Yorktown Heights, New York (1958).

17. FAIRTHORNE, R.A., 'The mathematics of classification', Towards Information Retrieval, Butterworths, London, 1-10 (1961).