Key Word In Context ( KWIC ) is the most common format for concordance lines. The term KWIC was coined by Hans Peter Luhn . The system was based on a concept called keyword in titles , which was first proposed for Manchester libraries in 1864 by Andrea Crestadoro .
5-476: KWIC may refer to: Key Word in Context , a way of presenting search results or concordances with context KWIC (FM) , a radio station (99.3 FM) licensed to Topeka, Kansas, United States Kawartha World Issues Centre , a charitable global education and resource centre, serving Peterborough, Ontario and surrounding communities Kolkata West International City ,
10-521: A satellite township development of Kolkata Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title KWIC . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=KWIC&oldid=1212951881 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Broadcast call sign disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
15-517: A search query including all of the words in an example definition ("KWIC is an acronym for Key Word In Context, the most common format for concordance lines") and the Misplaced Pages slogan in English ("the 💕"), searched against a Misplaced Pages page, might yield a KWIC index as follows. A KWIC index usually uses a wide layout to allow the display of maximum 'in context' information (not shown in
20-436: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Key Word in Context A KWIC index is formed by sorting and aligning the words within an article title to allow each word (except the stop words ) in titles to be searchable alphabetically in the index. It was a useful indexing method for technical manuals before computerized full text search became common. For example,
25-472: The following example). A KWIC index is a special case of a permuted index . This term refers to the fact that it indexes all cyclic permutations of the headings. Books composed of many short sections with their own descriptive headings, most notably collections of manual pages , often ended with a permuted index section, allowing the reader to easily find a section by any word from its heading. This practice, also known as Key Word Out of Context ( KWOC ),
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