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Table 5.3
Contingent and inescapable elements in modern information retrieval
Practices
Library
and
informa-
tion
practices
Internet
practices
Variable
Description
labor
Human semantic
description labor
+ / -
+ / -
Semantic
search labor as
description
-
+
Generic
capacity
offered by
descriptions
Generic capacity
from human
description labor
+
+ / -
Generic capacity
syntactically
generated in
description
-
+
Ordering
of retrieval
results
Intelligible
orders
+
+
Experimental
information
retrieval
Identical orders
-
-
Selection
operations
Boolean
operations for
selection
+
+
-
Common
Selection
operations
Computational
procedures for
selection
+
+
+
Semantic
Production of
meaning from
written language
+
+
+
Syntactic
or pattern
based
Frequency of
occurrence
of words and
phrases
+
+
+
