Development and Challenges of Automatic Indexing

Abstract

Content analysis as unquestionably important aspect of information consolidation in recent decades was enriched with many automatic indexing methods that coexist with manual indexing methods and have great potential but at the same time some unsolved questions concerning the quality of electronic resources indexing. In regard to automatically generated indexes and through the prism of the representative automatic indexing methods and their development this article will try to illuminate some of the challenges underlying the process of automatic indexing and notice that the underlying principles of the automatic indexing methods contain indications of future developments in this area. Concerning the improvement of automatic indexing methods the combination of automatic indexing and knowledge base of individual field should be identified as particularly promising.