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From: lkk@teddy.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: keyword-based news
Message-ID: <1461@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-Oct-85 10:44:27 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 21 10:44:27 1985
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References: <820@vortex.UUCP> <1300018@ccvaxa> <6061@utzoo.UUCP>
Reply-To: lkk@teddy.UUCP (Larry K. Kolodney)
Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
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Summary: 

In article <6061@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
> Apparently Lesk has done some work on keyword choice,
>and has made an interesting discovery:  of the various methods he tested
>for automatic keyword selection, distinctly the most effective was to
>use the first 30 words of the main text and *ignore* any author-supplied
>keywords.


This is certainly true with mail.  Our system here informs you of
new incoming mail by printing the first two or three lines on your
screen.  Its almost always possible to tell exactly what the
message is about from that information.

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