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In the first chapter, indexing was defined as the process of assigning content descriptors to documents. There are two reasons to index document collections. The first is to represent the content of individual documents for searchers to retrieve them, and the second is to organize the content so that computer programs may determine rapidly which documents contain content about which concepts.
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Hersh, W.R. (1996). Indexing. In: Information Retrieval: A Health Care Perspective. Computers and Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2529-2_5
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