Documentary Abstracting: Toward a Methodological Model

In the general abstracting process (GAP), there are two types of data: textual, within a particularly framed trilogy (surface, deep, and rhetoric); and documentary (abstractor, means of production and user demands). For its development, the use of the following disciplines, among others, is proposed: linguistics (structural, transformational and textual), logic (formal and fuzzy) and psychology (cognitive). The model for that textual transformation is based on a system of combined strategies with four key stages: reading-understanding, selection, interpretation and synthesis. A preliminary version of this work was presented at the 46th FID Conference on New Worlds in Information and Documentation, Madrid, 26-30 October 1992

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