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Volume 5, Issue 4
1 April 1971
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Program: electronic library and information systems
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Review Article| April 01 1971

A KWIC‐KWOC Double Index with Manual Keyword Selection Available to Purchase

G. Thomas;
G. Thomas
London University Computer Services Ltd.
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T. Whitehall
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Brooke Bond Liebig Research Centre
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7301
Print ISSN: 0033-0337
© MCB UP Limited
1971
Program (1971) 5 (4): 211–219.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb046652

The production of a keyword in context (KWIC) index by H. Luhn of IBM was a great step forward in the technique of automatic information handling. Although Luhn proposed the KWIC Index as a means of alerting recipients to current material, it has been widely used ever since to produce indexes for retrospective search purposes as well.

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