Abstract
We believe that information retrieval (IR) and machine translation (MT) develop ments portend a momentous advance in social science technique. This movement will depend in large part upon gathering agreement concerning language, terms, concepts, and modes of attack on reality. Therefore any endeavor to draw together wide areas of knowledge of man in a single network, such as the systems theory of the biologist Bertalanffy, may succeed in providing the orientation necessary for data coding and processing. In this light Professor Tagliacozzo, who serves jointly the New School for Social Research and the Voice of America, offers a potentially useful basis for deriving systematic categories for the mechanization of data work.
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