A computer program was written in SPITBOL to generate a printed phrase index from document titles. The documents to be indexed were theses and dissertations, which tend to have informative and specific titles. It was hoped that a phrase index would be more useful than either a KWOK or KWIK index, since the former sacrifices precision for recall, while the latter is unnecessarily cumbersome.
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