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Part One, Automatic Content Analysis contains: "Content Analysis in Information Retrieval;""The 'Generality' Effect and the Retrieval Evaluation for Large Collections;""Automatic Indexing Using Bibliographic Citations" and "Automatic Resolution of Ambiguities from Natural Language Text." Part Two, Automatic Dictionary Construction, includes: "The Effect of Common Words and Synonyms on Retrieval Performance;""Negative Dictionaries" and "Experiments in Automatic Thesaurus Construction for Information Retrieval." Part Three, user feedback procedures, includes: "Variations on the Query Splitting Technique with Relevance Feedback;""Effectiveness of Feedback Strategies on Collections of Differing Generality;""Selective Negative Feedback Methods" and "The Use of Past Relevance Decisions in Relevance Feedback." Part Four, clustering methods, includes: "A Controlled Single Pass Classification Algorithm with Application to Multilevel Clustering" and "A Systematic Study of Query-Clustering Techniques: A Progress Report." Part Five, on-line retrieval system design, contains: "A Prototype On-Line Document Retrieval System" and "Template Analysis in a Conversational System." (Author:NH)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert