This study investigated various techniques for systematically abbreviating English words and names. Most of the attention was given to the techniques which could be mechanized with a digital device such as a general purpose digital computer. Particulal attention was paid to techniques that could process incoming information without prior knowledge of its existence (Le., no table lookups). Thirteen basic techniques and their modifications are described. In addition, most of the techniques were tested on a sample of several thousand subject words and several thousand proper names in order to provide a quantitative measure of comparison.
A computer program has been written and used which components and interrelated operations that an simulates the several-year operation of an informa-equivalent manual analysis would be extremely cumtion system and computes estimates of the expected bersome and time consuming, and perhaps even imoperating costs as well as the amount of equipment practical. This paper describes this program and and personnel required during that time period. The shows, as an example, some of the results of a simulaprogram has been used for the analysis of several tion of two of several suggested designs for a specific large systems and has proven itself to be a useful information system. research tool for the study of systems with so many
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