Thesaurus Design and Development

9/24/98


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Table of Contents

Thesaurus Design and Development

Review

Indexing Languages

Thesauri

Thesauri (cont.)

Classification Systems

Automatic Indexing and Classification

Clustering

Automatic Class Assignment

Today

Why develop a thesaurus?

Why develop a thesaurus?

Preliminary considerations

Preliminary Considerations

Development of a Thesaurus

1. Term Selection

1.1 Kinds of Sources

1.1 Kinds of Sources

Selection of sources

Selection of Sources

Selection of Terms

Selection of Terms

2. Merging and Development of Concept Classes

3. Definition of Broad Subject Fields and Subfields

4. Development of Classificatory Structure

5. Final Stages

Review

Review (cont.)

Testing a Thesaurus

Flow of Work in Thesaurus Construction

The Indexing Process

Application: The Indexing Process (Manual)

Thesaurus Revision and Updates

References

Author: Ray R. Larson

Email: ray@sherlock.berkeley.edu

Home Page: http://sims.berkeley.edu/~ray

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