Thesaurus control—The selection, grouping, and cross-referencing of terms for inclusion in a coordinate index word list | Semantic Scholar (2024)

These syntactic influences, together with some of the philosophy from earlier studies, have been combined to produce a set of rules which have greatly eased decision making and have enabled the thesaural vocabulary to be made more consistent.

The application of indexing functions to document collections of three specific types: (1) ‘conventional’ text databases; (2) hypertext databases; and (3) the World Wide Web, globally distributed across the Internet are discussed.

Findings show that thesauri viewed from the communications point of view do not allow a cybernetic process of communication (“both‐way” communication) if a thesaurus utilized in a system is not updated by both indexers and question negotiators.

Structural deficiencies can be detected by applying a range of logical analysis criteria to each text part: looking at the nature and quality of its content and the use of the appropriate discourse sequence.

A uniterm keyword system is explained which is thought to be suitable for small information centers operated by a staff of one or two and a means of indexing which provides for the variation of the meaning of uniterr keywords without introducing multi‐term or additional ones.

A number of novel automatic features have been incorporated in the retrieval system input, including the reduction of index entries to their singular root forms, the elimination of redundant words and the auto‐roling of words through their morphology.

The paper is restricted to a consideration of the potential value of linguistic techniques to the informal en scientist and does not attempt to discuss the applicability of information science techniques toThe field of linguistics.

Distributed thesauri may be a good complement to the traditional registry approach and a novel approach is proposed to incorporate terminology services with the sauri and provide more descriptive information about theSauri and relating services.

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The problem of determining the optimal cross‐reference structure for a given index and for agiven community of users is discussed and types of relations linking the terms of cross‐references in existing indexes and thesauri are examined.