Toward conceptual indexing using automatic assignment of descriptors

Indexing techniques have reached a well maturated state. Digital libraries and other digital collections make an intense use of these algorithms to store and retrieve documents. In the other side, we have browsing techniques, which lets the user to gather the information. Current approaches are not yet advanced enough in order to satisfy the user. At CERN we are working in a indexer based on thesaurus descriptors. With a collection of documents related to thesaurus, user can manipulate them in a more conceptual way. Here we describe the core of this system, the automatic descriptor assigner.