Helmut Drubba of the Technical Information Library in Hannover playfully ended his fine survey of conference documentation by paraphrasing Irving Berlin-''There's no literature like conference literature. " 1 Certainly conference literature presents unique bibli~ graphic problems for both librarians and researchers. ISI@ recognized this fact when we introduced our Zndex to Scientific & Technica...

In this paper we carried out a diachronic analysis (1840-2009) of a corpus of 180 medical case report titles drawn from the British Medical Journal. We analyzed a series of quantitative variables (number of authors and their institutional affiliation, title length, and punctuation/ grammatical data) and qualitative variables (authors’ collaboration and types of titles). The results of our resea...

In this paper, we describe a method to automatically identify titles within Web pages. Although HTML syntax provides specific tags for titles, they are not always correctly used, and sometimes they do not even appear. We use visual clues like font size or colour provided by Cascading Style Sheets in order to retrieve the title hierarchy. The assumption is that the level of an element in the tit...

Over the last 20 years the increasing availability, utility, and importance of geospatial data has led to new kinds of positions in government agencies, non-profit organizations and private businesses. While employment opportunities have grown substantially, guidelines for assigning titles, qualifications and responsibilities have not kept pace. Inconsistency in GIScience titles and job qualifi...

Creation titles, i.e. titles of literary and/or artistic works, comprise over 7% of named entities in Chinese documents. They are the fourth large sort of named entities in Chinese other than personal names, location names, and organization names. However, they are rarely mentioned and studied before. Chinese title recognition is challenging for the following reasons. There are few internal fea...