PROBLEMS IN DEVELOPING SUITABLE DICTIONARIES OF PASHTO WERE REPORTED. PASHTO WAS DESCRIBED AS A MEMBER OF THE IRANIAN BRANCH OF THE INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES SPOKEN IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN AND IN NORTHEASTERN PAKISTAN. FIVE TOPICS DEALING WITH THE PASHTO LANGUAGE WERE DISCUSSED--(1) STATISTICS, (2) WRITTEN CORPUS AND LEXICAL STUDIES, (3)…

These guidelines for the establishment and development of monolingual scientific and technical thesauri for information retrieval are published in an attempt to lay the basis for compatability, both at the present and in the future, of thesauri that are being elaborated simultaneously in most of the disciplines of science, basic as well as…

Two formulations for lexicographic preferences are characterized by axioms which avoid direct reference to the importance ordering of wants or criteria that is part of the lexicographic principle. A condition which identifies the noncompensatory nature of lexicographic preferences emerges in each axiomatization. The first formulation involves…

Summarizes suggestions offered by translators on ways to evaluate and to improve bilingual dictionaries. (AM)

Examines the treatment of sense discrimination in eight Spanish/English English/Spanish bilingual dictionaries and one specialized dictionary. Does this by analyzing 30 words that Torrents des Prats determined have at least nine different sense discriminations from English into Spanish. Larousse was found to be far superior to the others. (SED)

This feature consists of a list of corrections and additions to the dictionaries of the Spanish language academy. (Text is in Spanish.) (CLK)

Part of a continued series. (DD)

Paper to be presented to the Seventh International Congress of Slavists, Warsaw, Poland, August 1973. (RS)

Part of a continuing series. (VM)

Describes the electrical makeup of the transistor, including English translations of French terms.

Presents a glossary of scientific neologisms, compiled by the International Committee For Unification of Terminological Neologisms. Entries are presented and defined in French, then glossed in various other languages. (AM)

Studies recent trends in linguistic borrowing in English. Journal availability: see FL 512 361. (AM)

Presents a new corpus-based method for constructing a thesaurus based on lexical cooccurrence. Each word is represented as a vector in a multi-dimensional space that captures cooccurrence, and a similarity measure compares these vectors. Two methods for using these thesaurus vectors in information retrieval are described. (Author/LRW)