By L. B. Doyle
Communications of the ACM,
April 1965,
Vol. 8 No. 4, Pages 238-243
10.1145/363831.364903
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In automatic abstracting, citation indexing, mechanical translation and other such procedures, editing is required whenever the automatic method leaves something to be desired. This paper discusses the economy of editing as a function of the amount of condensation of text in language processing operations, and then contends that editing can be regarded as an opportunity rather than as an unwelcome necessity.
“Heavy editing,” which goes beyond mere correction and improvement of computer output, is exemplified by the use of a concordance in preparing a survey article or lecture. Other opportunities for heavy editing are described, chief among them being interpretation and expansion of computer output in such processes as factor analysis. Applications are described, such as the quick, unbiased evaluation of a large volume of incoming mail or telegrams, yielding summary reports not possible for either humans or computers to produce alone.
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