Matching of operational languages in documentary systems
By: by R.A. Fairthorne.
Series: Report / North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Advisory Group for Aeronautical Research and Development -- 49; AGARD report -- 49.
Publisher: North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Published: 1956
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 12
Subjects: Information retrieval.; Documentation.
Description: Discusses the problem of clerical tasks as sequences of elementary observations, identifications, and manipulations of marked objects.  The basic repertories or 'alphabets' of operations and of marks, in association with the vocabularies of permissible sequences, or 'words', are given the technical name of 'scripts'.  These scripts can be represented algebraically, and any systematic spelling rules will be reflected in the algebraic structure.  It is shown how, with this concept, all clerical tasks, including marshalling and retrieval, can be studied as chains of transcriptions and transliterations.
Notes: "This report was presented at the sixth meeting of the Documentation Committee, held from February 20th to 25th, 1956, in Rome, Italy."

"February 1956"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 12).