How a Personal Document's Intended Use or Purpose Affects its Classification in an Office.
Barbara H. Kwasnik:
How a Personal Document's Intended Use or Purpose Affects its Classification in an Office.
SIGIR 1989: 207-210@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/sigir/Kwasnik89,
author = {Barbara H. Kwasnik},
editor = {Nicholas J. Belkin and
C. J. van Rijsbergen},
title = {How a Personal Document's Intended Use or Purpose Affects its
Classification in an Office},
booktitle = {SIGIR'89, 12th International Conference on Research and Development
in Information Retrieval, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, June
25-28, 1989, Proceedings},
publisher = {ACM},
year = {1989},
isbn = {0-89791-321-3},
pages = {207-210},
ee = {db/conf/sigir/Kwasnik89.html},
crossref = {DBLP:conf/sigir/89},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
Abstract
This paper reports on one of the findings of a larger case study that attempts to describe how people
organize documents in their own offices. In that study, several dimensions along which people make
classificatory decisions were identified. Of these, the use to which a document is put emerged as a
strong determiner of that document's classification. The method of analysis is reviewed, and
examples of different kinds of uses are presented, demonstrating that it is possible to describe a
wide variety of specific instances using a closed set of descriptors. The suggestion is made that, in
designing systems for organizing materials, it might be advantageous to incorporate information
about contextual variables, such as use, since these seem to be particularly important in
classification decisions made within personal environments.
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Nicholas J. Belkin, C. J. van Rijsbergen (Eds.):
SIGIR'89, 12th International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, June 25-28, 1989, Proceedings.
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