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''' A DIRECT APPROACH TO INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

Table of Contents''' WHAT WHY HOW 1. INTRODUCTION 2. THE LINE OF ATTACK 3. SYSTEMS VS. USERS 3.1 Discrimination 3.2 Prediction 4. DOCUMENTS VS. SURROGATES 5. THE THEORY OF INTERPRETATION 5.1 Denotation and Connotation 5.2 The Theory of Ogden and Richards 5.3 Implications for Information Retrieval 6. PROPOSAL FOR FILE ORGANIZATION 6.1 Incentives 6.2 Extracts as Indexing Sources 6.3 Extracts as Review Sources 7. CONCLUSION 8. REFERENCES

7. CONCLUSION
I think, as many others may do, that in his World Encyclopedia, H. G. Wells proposed in effect an ideal of file organization for information retrieval. Refer again to the prefatory statement made by him. The crucial point here is to select and collate carefully, and to present critically. So far this study has attempted to move toward his ideal. "The crucial point here is to select and collate carefully, and to present critically. So far this study has attempted to move toward his ideal." Note: He was a visiting professor at UCL.Note: This unpublished is one of  11 articles Jim Gray recommended.  Note: He was also a visiting professor at UCL.

Say, "World Encyclopedia." This somewhat tricky wording seems to bear some misunderstanding. Clearly, it is to put away miscellany and synthesize the essence only rather than to bring all together. In general, words being freed from its proper contexts, whether literary or external or psychological, are mischievous. and easily bring in misinterpretations. Incidentally, Wells himself experienced such a mischief done by a professional journalist. Hayakawa24 says that:


 * "...the ignoring of contexts in any act of interpretation is at best a stupid practice. At its worst, it can be a vicious practice."

By saying "ignoring," however, he would not ignore the possibility of dispensing with part of the whole context. Given the environment, or given the wider context, part of the context is determinative in interpretation.

AFTERTHOUGHTS

 * See also
 * World Encyclopedia
 * S. I. Hayakawa