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Successful information retrieval from a mechanized file is heavily dependent on the fidelity of the representation of concepts in the particular language of the system and on the predictability of this representation. The lack of fidelity in most of the present day indexing languages is due mainly to insufficient representation of the relationships among concepts. The authors describe a new graphical method of storing and retrieving concept relations of various kinds. The points of such a graph are occupied by concepts, and the connecting lines between these points represent concept relations. In a special field of chemistry, these graphs also serve as a kind of presentation of the essentials of a document to the reader that is much more lucid than a natural language text.