id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 5594 Palmer, Foster M. Automatic Processing of Personal Names for Filing 1971-12-01 13 .pdf application/pdf 5610 448 73 AUTOMATIC PROCESSING OF PERSONAL NAMES FOR FILING Describes a method for preparing personal names already in machine readable form for processing by any standard computer sort program, determining filing order insofar as possible from normally available information This paper describes a method of computerized filing of personal names there are many possible complications in machine filing of library entries, While some early work embraced both personal names and titles, it below, and inserting one of four filing codes at the end of each word or mentioned in dealing with multiple-word forename entries and with surnames lacking forenames, the algorithm is well suited to names in the MARC I corpus included several names with hyphenated prefixes, and names in the MARC Pilot Project data, whenever the "doubt" signal was of doubtful names printed on the edit list was 631, or 1.1%. reduced considerably the number of names requiring hand-made forms. ./cache/5594.pdf ./txt/5594.txt