The nature of the problem and earlier approaches to the automatic compilation of printed subject indexes are reviewed and illustrated. A simple method is described for the de~ection of semantically self-contained word phrase segments in title-like texts. The method is based on a predetermined list of acceptable types of nominative syntactic patterns which can be recognized using a small domain-independent dictionary.The transformation of the de~ected word phrases into subject index records is described. The records are used for ~he compilation of Key Word Phrase subJec= indexes (K~PSI). The me~hod has been successfully tested for the fully automatic production of KWPSI-type indexes to titles of scientific publications.The usage of KWPSI-type display forma~s for the~enhanced online access to databases is also discussed.
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