Abstract

MOSCOSO, Purificación  and  EXTREMENO, Ana. Análisis del lenguaje controlado en tres bases de datos internacionales. Inf. cult. soc. [online]. 2000, n.2, pp.45-64. ISSN 1851-1740.

This paper analyses the indexing of three Social Sciencies International databases taken into consideration relevance, consistency and exhaustivity of the vocabulary used in the controlled languajes. Post-coordinated languaje and pre-coordinated languaje are compared, and results identify the coherence of the use of descriptors versus subject headings.

Keywords : Databases; Indexing; Relevance; Consistency; Exhaustivity; Social Sciences.