NEPHIS (Nested Phrase Indexing System)

NEPHIS is an ad hoc string indexing system developed by Timothy Craven in 1986.

Literature:

Anderson, J. D. & Radford, G. (1988). Back-of the book indexing with the Nested Phrase Indexing System (NEPHIS. The Indexer, 16, 79-84.

Craven, T. C. (1986). String Indexing. Orlando: Academic Press. Appendix D: A Brief manual for composition of NEPHIS input strings. http://publish.uwo.ca/~craven/book1986/bookd.htm

See also: String indexing

Birger Hjørland

Last edited: 27-07-2006

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