Relational indexing as a german language indexing tool

Abstract

An investigation has been made of the suitability of Farradane's system of relational indexing as a German language indexing tool. A circular representation of Farradane's table of relations is proposed and the German version of relational indexing is presented and discussed. The method has been found effective in German, and it would appear that the semantic interpretation of texts is independent of the linguistic influences of the language.