Information Storage and Retrieval in the Social Sciences

Paul Garvin , "A Linguist's View of Language-data Processing", Natural Language and the Computer, McGraw, Hill, 1963.

D.J. Foskett , Classification and Indexing in the Social Sciences, Butterworth , London 1963.

F. de Saussure , Cours de Linguistique générale, Payot, Paris.

B. Berelson , Content Analysis in Communication Research, The Free Press , 1952.

Don R. Swanson , "Searching Natural Language Texts by Computers" (Science , Oct. 1960) pp. 1099-1104.

W.J. Plath , "Multiple-path Syntactic Analysis of Russian" ( Harvard, Report N.S.F. - 12, June 1963), pp. 4-146.

Uriel Weinreich , "Travels in Semantic Space" (Word, Aug. - Dec. 1958).

Mimeographied reports to Euratom, 1962 (contracts n 001-60-1 CETF and n° 014-61-4 CETF), under the following title : Le SYNTOL (Syntagmatic Organization Language) vol. 1, Aspects théoriques, 117 p., by J.-C. Gardin A set of logico-linguistical rules for the expression and automatic manipulation of scientific information. vol. 2, Problèmes de programmation, 92 p., by R.-C. Cros An experimental program for automatic retrieval, with the IBM 7090. vol. 3, Exemples de Lexiques Lists of descriptors used for an experiment of the system on the IBM 7090. fasc. A, Introduction et Champ commun, 48 p., by F. Lévy fasc. B, Physiologie, 192 p., by J.-C. Gardin and R. Zygouris fasc. C, Psychologie, 130 p., by F. Lévy fasc. D, Sociologie, Ethnologie, 1943 p., by F. Izard, F. Lévy, etc. (This last fascicule was actually issued in 1964, independently from the Euratom series). vol. 4, Analyse automatique, 145 p., by M. Coyaud Automatic indexing of scientific abstracts in physiology, from French into SYNTOL.

English mimeographed translation of vol. 1 and 2, prepared and distributed by the National Science Foundation, U.S.A., 1963.

Printed version of vol. 1 - 4 (except 3 D), under the following title : Le SYNTOL, étude d'un système général de documentation automatique, Presses académiques européennes (98, chaussée de Charleroi, Bruxelles 6), under print.

Revised versions of vol. 1 and 2, supplemented by a report on the results of indexing and retrieval experiments conducted in 1962, using the IBM 7090 computer, etc. R.-C. Cros, J.-C. Gardin, F. Lévy, L'automatisation des recherches documentaires : un modèle général, le SYNTOL, 250 p., Gauthier-Villars, Paris 1964.

Summary of the system, in English, presented for the Rutgers Seminars on Systems for the Intellectual Organization of Information (Dec. 5-6, 1963), to be published in 1964-5 (provisional title : An Outline of SYNTOL, ca. 100 p. by J.-C. Gardin), as part of a report on the Rutgers seminars (editor : S. Artandi, Graduate School of Library Service, Rutgers, New Brunswick, N.J., U.S.A.).

Philip J. Stone , et al. "The General Inquirer : A Computer System for Content Analysis and Retrieval Based on the Sentence as a Unit of Information " (Behavioral Science, volume 7, number 4, October, 1962).

Erwin K. Scheuch and Ph. Stone , "The General Inquirer Approach to an International Retrieval System For Survey Archives" ( American Behavioral Scientist, June 1964, Vol. 7, n° 10, pp. 23-28).

W.R. Mc Pherson , D.C. Dunphy , R.F. Bales , P.J. Stone , and D.M. Ogilvie , "A Revised Psychological and Sociological Dictionary for the General Inquirer" (preface to the third General Inquirer Dictionary ; Laboratory of Social Relations, Harvard U., December 1962).

Philip J. Stone , Marshall S. Smith , "A Computer System for Finding Recurrent Patterns within a List of Events" (mimeographed paper).

Philip J. Stone , Earl B. Hunt , "The General Inquirer Extended : Automatic Theme Analysis Using Tree Building", IFIP Proceedings, Munich, 1962.

D.M. Ogilvie , D.C. Dunphy , C. Smith , P.J. Stone , et al., Some Characteristics of genuine versus simulated suicide notes as analyzed by a computer system called the General Inquirer, Laboratory of Social Relations, Harvard University, 1962 .

Margaret A. Boden , On Discrimination Trees : Examples Using Three Speeches from the 1962 Cuban Crisis. Laboratory of Social Relations, Harvard University , 1964.