Linguistics, summarization, information
retrieval, and library science
Publications by John Hutchins
A selected list of my publications on topics other than machine
translation.
For copies of articles not available online, please contact me: john
[‘at’] hutchinsweb.me.uk.
[* = recently added]
Linguistics
The generation of syntactic structures from a semantic base. (North-Holland Linguistic Series
2)
Semantics in three formal models of language. Lingua
28 (3), 1971, 201-235. [PDF, 802KB]
Subjects, themes and case grammars. Lingua
35(2), 1975, 101-133 [PDF, 725KB]
‘On the structure of scientific texts’. UEA Papers in Linguistics 5, 1977, 18-39 [PDF, 144KB]
* Communicating
scientific experiments in journal articles. In: Victor Yngve and
Zdzisław Wąsik (eds.) Hard-science linguistics (
* From text linguistics to a human linguistics of texts: the scientific paper as a case study. [Written 2002 as a ‘continuation’ of the above. Unpublished.]
Summarization
‘Some problems and methods of text condensation’. UEA
Papers in Linguistics 19, 1983, 38-54 [PDF, 137KB]
‘Summarization: some problems and methods’. In:
Meaning: the frontier of informatics. Informatics 9: proceedings of a
conference jointly sponsored by Aslib, the Aslib Informatics Group, and the
Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the British Computer Society, King's
College,
‘Introduction to “Text Summarization” workshop,
December 1993’. In: B.Engres-Niggemeyer, J.Hobbs and K.Sparck-Jones (eds.) Summarising
text for intelligent communication, Dagstuhl Seminar Report 79,
IBFI, Schloss Dagstuhl, Wadern, Germany. [1995] [HTML]
Information
retrieval, indexing, and classification
* Automatic document selection without indexing. Journal
of Documentation 23(4), 1967, 273-290
[PDF, 433KB]
‘Linguistic processes in the indexing and retrieval
of documents’. Linguistics 61, 1970, 29-64 [PDF, 291KB]
‘Facets,
roles and cases’. In: Informatics 1: Proceedings of a conference held by
the Aslib Co-ordinate Indexing Group on 11-13 April 1973 at Durham University.
(London: Aslib, 1974), pp.89-97
Languages of indexing and classification: a linguistic study of structures and
functions. (Librarianship and Information Studies 3)
‘On the problem of ‘aboutness’ in document analysis’.
Journal of Informatics 1(1), 1977, 17-35 [PDF, 179KB]
* The concept of 'aboutness' in subject indexing. Aslib
Proceedings 30(5), May 1978, 172-181. [PDF, 58KB]. Repr. in: Sparck Jones, Karen and Willett,
Peter (eds.)
* Information retrieval and text analysis’ In: Discourse
and communication: new approaches to the analysis of mass media discourse and
communication. Ed. by Teun A. van Dijk. (Research in Text Theory, vol.10.)
Librarianship
(with
L.J.Pargeter and W.L.Saunders) ‘University research and the language barrier’ Journal
of Librarianship 3(1), 1971, 1-25
German literary Expressionism and Dada: a catalogue of original publications and
facsimile reprints held in the
Acronyms and initialisms in education: a handlist. 4th edition. Librarians of
Institutes and Schools of Education, 1988; 5th ed. 1991; 6th ed. 1995
‘Der
Fachreferent in Großbritannien.’ In: 80. Deutscher Bibliothekartag in
Saarbrücken 1990: Bibliotheken in Europa. Herausgegeben von Engelbert
Plassmann, Hildegard Müller, Werner Tussing. Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann,
1991 (Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie, Sonderheft
53), pp.38-44.
‘Wissenschaftliche
Bibliotheken Großbritanniens und internationale Kooperation in Europa’. In: Europäische
Bibliothekskooperation: Vorträge des europäischen Seminars im Schloß Bechyné,
30.3.-3.4.1992. Praha: Základní knihovna - Ustredí vedeckych informací CSAV,
1992. pp.70-73.
‘From
holdings to access: economic forces determing the acquisitions policy of a
university library’. In: Studies for Elizabeth Fudakowska. Written to
commemorate her retirement in September 1994. Edited by David Baker &
Christopher Smith.
Bibliothekarisches Handwörterbuch. Librarian's dictionary. Nastol'nyi
slovar' bibliotekarya. Susanne Knechtges, unter Mitarbeit von Monika Segbert, John Hutchins,
Nadja Ekhevitch. Bad Honnef: Bock + Herchen Verlg, 1995. 204 pp.
‘Costing
of materials, operations and services’ In: Baker, David (ed.) Resource
management in academic libraries (London: Library Association, 1997),
98-109.
‘Allocating
funds for purchasing resources: the main factors’ In: Baker, David (ed.) Resource
management in academic libraries (London: Library Association, 1997),
110-118.
‘Developing
a formula for library resource funding’ In Baker, David (ed.) Resource
management in academic libraries (London: Library Association, 1997),
119-136.