Automatic indexing
computerized process of scanning large volumes of documents against a controlled vocabulary, taxonomy, thesaurus or ontology
Automatic indexing is indexing made by algorithmic procedures.
The algorithm works on a database containing document representations (which may be full text representations or bibliographical records or partial text representations and in principle also value added databases). Automatic indexing may also be performed on non-text databases, e.g. images or music.
- See also web crawlers.