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2937	Weil, Cherie B.	Automatic Retrieval of Biographical Reference Books	1968-12-01	11	.pdf	application/pdf	4754	359	66	Changes in reference services themselves, however, may make automation of question-answering practical. will mean two things to reference librarians: greater concentration of resources, allowing more specialized books and mechanization; and screening of questions at the local level, letting reference centers concentrate The categorizing system was based on two nearly universal generalizati.ons about biographical reference books: 1) They are consistently confined to biographies of persons who have something in common: for example, being alive or dead; or having the same nationality, sex, occupation, religion, race, memberships; or possessing some combination of those as to the specifics contained in each biographical reference book in the SEX, LIVING, NAT (nationality), OCCUP (occupation), MIN ( minorities), DATE, INDEX, SPECl and SPEC2 (specifics). same question ignoring already retrieved books each time, he will eventually have a comprehensive list of possible sources in the data that have A scheme for categorizing biographical reference books by their exclusive and specific categories makes it possible to automatically retrieve 	./cache/2937.pdf	./txt/2937.txt