The present guidelines, preliminary in character, are an attempt to facilitate the development and application of a standardized method of multilingual thesaurus construction and to reduce the number of arbitrary variations in thesaurus techniques. In the preparation of these guidelines the approach has been theoretical rather than practical.…

The first paper, "The Language of Term Relation Designations in Subject Access Vocabularies," contains a set of tables comparing certain features of ten thesauri and subject authority lists. The purpose of this essay is to present a kind of analysis that may have value in clarifying the language and structure of subject access vocabularies with a…

GUIDELINES AND CONVENTIONS ARE PRESENTED FOR THE SELECTION OF APPROPRIATE TECHNICAL SUBJECT INDEXING AND RETRIEVAL TERMINOLOGY AND THE DISPLAY OF THIS TERMINOLOGY IN A THESAURUS FORMAT. THESE CONVENTIONS WERE DEVELOPED BY PROJECT LEX, THE DOD TECHNICAL THESAURUS TASK FORCE, IN COOPERATION WITH THE ENGINEERS JOINT COUNCIL. A DISCUSSION IS GIVEN OF…

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…

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)

Five facets of background information are intended to be helpful to persons interested in the construction and use of a thesaurus, in the sense of a standardized language for communication with and between information storage and retrieval systems. Based on the Thesaurus of Engineering and Scientific Terms (TEST) as an example: (1) the thesaurus…

What is the desirability and usefulness of different thesaurus displays used either singly or in groups? Is an alphabetical listing of terms with cross references more useful to an indexer than a complete hierarchical display? Is the permuted or the rotated term index more useful to the indexer or retriever? Is an alphabetical display along with a…

This classification scheme attempts to demonstrate a method of controlling and organizing an indexing language for the physical forms of non-book media. The classification is based on the technique of facet analysis. It comprises a classification of the concepts of the subject with an alphabetical listing of the verbal descriptions of the subject.…

The field of education serves as the basis for this discussion on the use of categories in a thesaurus for information processing and documentation purposes. The author briefly shows how a number of writers concerned with the structure of the field of education, as well as makers of classification schemes, have commented on the value of setting up…

These guidelines are applicable in the sector of information and documentation for the preparation and development of monolingual thesauri for information storage and retrieval, irrespective of the technical field being dealt with. No provision has been made for mathematical and structural chemical formulae. The guidelines are drafted for general…

Lists 45 references dating from 1955 to 1972, relating to lexicography, monolingual and bilingual dictionaries, and translation. (AM)

Provides guidelines for thesaurus planning, development, and maintenance. Topics covered include the determination of user needs; the organization of raw vocabulary into clusters; the use of compound terms vs. precoordination; the use of notation; referencing; and computer maintenance of a thesaurus. (nine references) (CLB)

This is a revision of the "Rules for Thesaurus Preparation," published in October 1966. These rules are designed to help the Central ERIC staff and the staffs of the ERIC Clearinghouses make similar decisions related to the addition and modification of terms in the "Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors," Second Edition. In addition to…

Demonstrates the use of a directed graph model as a tool for finding desirable minimum vocabularies to be used in indexing and information retrieval. The basic algorithm is outlined, possible enhancements to the model are discussed, and further research questions are suggested. (Author/CLB)

Proposes that the major criteria for handling compound words should rest upon their orthography (physical form), lexicography (dictionary definition), and semantics, with special attention given to possible homographs. BS 5723 is criticized for failing to pay sufficient attention to the requirements of mechanized systems. Thirty-one references are…