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Keyword Inconsistency
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lExample from the Pennsylvania Gazette:
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lThe top-3 keywords are:
ladvertisement (16,000 articles)
lreal-estate (7,000 articles)
lrunaways (5,000 articles)
Subject Indexing > Problems
Consistency is a problem with human-generated indexes.  “The extraction of concepts and keywords from documentation can depend on the experiences and opinions of the indexer.”
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advertisement
real-estate
runaways
One researcher made the comment that …
I have a nice example from the PA Gaz, an 18th C newspaper that was the NY times of its day