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uniterm

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uniterm [′yü·nə‚tərm]
(computer science)
A word, symbol, or number used as a description for retrieval of information from a collection; especially, such a description used in a coordinate indexing system.
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My favorite critique that Cleverdon repeated a number of times was: "You had no right to be so intelligent with the uniterm system; it is meant to be used by people of low intellect" (Cleverdon, Mills, & Keen, 1966, p.
Effects of inconsistent relevance judgments on information retrieval ... by Saracevic, Tefko / Library Trends
To those of us who have been in the information science field for several decades, the peek-a-boo devices such as Termatrex, Mortimer Taube's Uniterm cards, and discussion of pre- and postcoordinate indexing have given way to the world of browsers, HTML, XML, and numerous other ways of coding text and multimedia.
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