Subject Searching Using Controlled Vocabulary Versus Uncontrolled Vocaburary in Online Catalog System: Focusing on Multilingual Environment

The purpose of this paper is to investigate search efficiency of controlled vocabulary versus uncontrolled vocabulary subject access in online catalog systems. The question of the effectiveness of controlled versus uncontrolled vocabulary in information retrieval has been raised in many literatures. A debate continues in the Library and Information Science Professions over the relative merit, appropriateness, and efficiency of uncontrolled vocabulary subject access in online catalog systems. Actually users used to combine uncontrolled vocabulary subject searching with controlled vocabulary subject searching. But the success of user's subject search depends on his choice of search terms. Also the technical developments that facilitate cooperation among information services in general make it increasingly possible for such cooperation to take place on an international level. In this study, several common types of vocabularies on online catalog systems are described and compared, especially usages of vocabularies in multilingual environment are analyzed.

정보검색의 성공여부는 적절한 검색어의 선정에 달려있다고 해도 과언이 아니다. 특히 CD-ROM이나 온라인목록시스템에서 주제검색시 분류표, 주제명과 같은 통제어와 자연어 등 비통제어의 비교 우위 문제는 아직도 논란이 되고 있다. 본고는 두 시스템의 검색효율성을 비교하기 위하여 특히 다언어 환경하에서의 검색어 사용에 중점을 두고 다양한 형태의 검색어휘를 조사 분석하였다.