On the machine translation of string indexing languages between English and French using PRECIS as an example

This project would not have been possible twenty years ago. At that time the first steps were being taken to introduce the computer into library and information retrieval processes. At first, manual operations were mechanized. Then came new thought, and methods of fulfilling the old functions in ways more suited to the computer were devised. The most difficult of these old functions has always been the provision of subject access to information. [Continues.]