Thesaurus Construction Research Articles

Literary Warrant dan User Warrant untuk Merancang Konstruksi Prototipe Tesaurus

A thesaurus limits its scope to specific subjects or related to certain subjects and is a means of standardizing terms created as a tool in the process of organizing information. A principle-compliant index language is required when organizing information. A user warrant and literary warrant approach can be used to construct a thesaurus with a particular subject. User warrant means the collection of terms based on users’ frequency of use of a term, while the literary warrant is carried out with an accurate survey of a word, phrase, or term contained in literature. The results of the analysis in the form of a thesaurus prototype can be used as a tool for document indexing and information retrieval. This becomes a tool for classifying and finding collections in the library as collections with various subjects grow. A thesaurus is a form of means of supervising controlled terms post-adjustment or post-coordination. In constructing the thesaurus, an arrangement of entries is formed to show equivalence relationships, hierarchical and associative. The results of the subject thesaurus construction can be used as a basis for further thesaurus development, which is more complete for the indexing process.

Kroatische Sprichwortvarianten bei der Erstellung des kroatischen parömiologischen Thesaurus

Abstract The project establishing the Croatian paremiological minimum and optimum began in 2014 during which valuable data was collected from 1,585 informants, who completed two sets of field questionnaires – the first and the second final text presentation of the proverbs occurring most frequently in the three biggest Croatian corpora (see Aleksa Varga and Keglević 2020a). The questionnaires were analyzed using the model analysis developed by Chlosta and Grzybek (see Chlosta and Grzybek 2005, 2015 and Grzybek 2012), based on a 4-code system. Since part of the analysis of both studies regarding the zero variant and the familiarity of Croatian proverbs have already been published (see Aleksa Varga and Keglević 2020b), the scope of this paper lies in analyzing the variations of the first, second, or third degree. As one of the goals of the research, apart from establishing the Croatian paremiological minimum and/or optimum, is also the construction of an electronic Croatian paremiological thesaurus, it is of utmost importance to analyze the proverb variations from the field questionnaires for inclusion in the database as well; i.e., to determine if they appear frequently enough alongside or instead of the proposed zero variant. Therefore, the present paper analyzes the Croatian proverb variants of the first, second, and third degree from the quantitative, qualitative, and corpus linguistic point of view, providing suggestions on further steps in constructing the Croatian proverbial thesaurus.

Thesaurus construction for community-centered metadata

Thesaurus construction for community-centered metadata

Design of Sentiment Analysis Framework of Digital Media Short Text Based on Multi-pattern Sentiment Lexicon

Along the continuous advancement of the network and the rise of digital media, the amount of data produced by the exponential explosion. And how to use these data to provide personalized services for users is one of the current research focuses. To address the issue of insufficient coverage in the current sentiment lexicon and the difficulty of constructing sentiment lexicon in specific fields, this study proposes a multi-modal emotional thesaurus. Semi-supervised learning is used to solve the problem of insufficient coverage of emotional thesaurus, and a semi-supervised classification algorithm is realized by using a large number of unlabeled sample data combined with a small number of labeled sample data. Optimized learning is used to solve the problem of difficult construction of emotional thesaurus in specific fields, the corresponding specific emotional thesaurus is constructed by adaptive adjustment of emotional word score, and finally the improved emotional thesaurus is used to build a digital media short text sentiment analysis framework. For testing, the NLPCC dataset was used in this study, Experiments show that the framework constructed in this study requires 87 iterations, a Recall value of 0.912, a F1 value of 0.753, and an average accuracy of 83.39%, all of which are better than the sentiment analysis framework without the use of multi-pattern sentiment lexicon. In the simulation experiment, the recognition accuracy reached 85.88%, which was 16.85%, 11.57% and 6.72% higher than the test scenarios using a single emotion thesaurus selected in this study. The above results show that the digital media short-text sentiment analysis framework built in this research based on multi-pattern sentiment lexicon can carry out short-text sentiment analysis more accurately and efficiently, so as to accurately analyze users’ needs and provide customized services precisely.

Digital Humanities and Librarianship

Digital Humanities (DH) is an emerging academic discipline that helps to provide solutions to problems of humanities and social sciences through computational techniques. It is the result of the convergence of digital technologies with social sciences and humanities. The libraries now have the responsibilities of planning, designing, and developing digital content, digital preservation, and digital archives to preserve the historical humanities and archaeological resources. Libraries have played a crucial role in the development of DH1. It is inspiring that library professionals are now wanted to engage with digital humanities actively2. DH is one of the key research areas of the library profession and can integrate with library technologies and methods such as knowledge organization, knowledge management, search and retrieval design, user education, metadata, semantic mapping, ontology, thesaurus construction, digital curation, discovery services, etc. which finds application in DH. Libraries support the digital humanities more explicitly in digital scholarly publishing, digital libraries, digital collections, text mining, and digital pedagogy

Digital humanities

Digital humanities is a result of the convergence of digital technology with social sciences and humanities. It is one of the key research areas around the world by the library and information science profession, and in cognate areas such as art and archeology. Focus groups, digital humanities centres are created for intensive researches which are located mainly in libraries as their core programmes. The library techniques and methods such as knowledge organisation, knowledge management, search and retrieval design, education, and emerging areas such as metadata, semantic mapping, ontology, thesaurus construction, digital curation, discovery services, find application in digital humanities. A new area of study, historical informatics complements the digital humanities. India has vast potential application of digital humanities with its diverse culture, customs and languages and so on. India is reckoned as one of the advanced countries in the IT sector, hence recognising the socio-cultural legacy and diverse historical background, it is viewed that digital humanities has many opportunities and applications for LIS professionals in India to contribute substantially. This paper brings together the concepts, tools, and applications of digital humanities and proposes a course of study in LIS curriculum.

The History, Present Situation and Trend of Specific Topic Word List

As an important tool in vocabulary learning, word lists play an important role in vocabulary research. From the perspective of diachronic and synchronic, this paper comprehensively analyzes the research process, current situation and trend of word lists with specific themes, and summarizes the construction of its corpus, vocabulary screening criteria and the presentation of vocabulary. The results show that: 1) In terms of the construction of the corpus, the size of the corpus used in the construction of various thesaurus varies, but the written language corpus of the academic word list with specific topics is mostly composed of journal papers and textbooks. The topic - specific technical word list is related to manuals, reference books and other more specialized genres. 2) In terms of vocabulary selection criteria, most the academic word list with specific topics adopts frequency, range and specialized occurrence, but specialized occurrence has been questioned in recent years. The recognition methods of technical words are mostly mixed. In addition, scholars will also use criteria such as frequency and range to further select words, but the adoption of the criteria of range is also controversial. 3) In terms of the presentation of vocabulary, the academic word list with specific topics mostly uses lemma, while the technical word list mostly uses word type. The findings of this paper will provide references for ESP researchers and English teachers on the development and application of vocabulary in this subject area in their research and teaching.

Questionable authorship practices across the disciplines: Building a multidisciplinary thesaurus using evolutionary concept analysis

The culture surrounding authorship practices differs from discipline to discipline, with the potential for inconsistent terminology across disciplines to hamper comprehension in interdisciplinary conversations. To address this problem, an interdisciplinary corpus of research literature on the topic of questionable authorship practices was used to create a multidisciplinary thesaurus. This process used Evolutionary Concept Analysis (ECA) as mediated through MAXQDA. Problems of synonymy and polysemy are addressed using ECA which identifies and subsequently analyzes terms used to denote questionable authorship practices as well as their synonyms, relevant uses, attributes, references, antecedents, and consequences. The value is two-fold: first, this addresses the gap in the literature in terms of the identification, analysis, and organization of a set of interdisciplinary terms relating to questionable authorship practices; second, it presents a novel methodological approach to thesaurus construction from a multidisciplinary corpus through using ECA.

SPARQL and SKOS Enabled Multilingual Polyhierarchical Thesaurus : Designing a Framework

The goal of this work is to investigate a multilingual thesaurus with a polyhierarchical structure based on TemaTres to publish vocabulary on the web for the simple retrieval of multilingual information by users. It could easily retrieve related metadata from other sources to improve advanced library services. The TemaTres and LAMP Architecture built and created this integrated prototype framework on the Ubuntu platform. Apart from that, it investigates Google Translate for easy data entry in various terms and facets across many languages. It must configure vocabulary settings to build a multilingual enabled polyhierarchical structure based on SPARQL Endpoint and API services. The study's primary outcomes include the development of a multilingual integrated framework for easy retrieval of information on various terms and facets by users. A multilingual data entry framework on a specific topic can be created using Unicode and TemaTres. There are numerous scripts and strategies available for web publishing. This study is unique in that it focuses on creating and retrieving multilingual thesaurus based on polyhierarchical relationships. The library professionals and users will benefit significantly from these integrated vocabulary services. It makes SPARQL linked data facilities by providing a visual vocabulary and thesaurus construction interface based on Web 2.0 and API services.

Keywords Extraction and Thesaurus Construction for Domain News

In modern information retrieval systems, the thesaurus is playing an increasingly important role. In order to better describe and analyze the domain news, this paper proposes a method of domain keyword extraction, and further constructs an effective domain thesaurus. Compared with the previous research, this paper grasps the core information in the field by extracting and combining domain keywords, and improves the domain effectiveness of the thesaurus. In addition, this paper conducts both manual analysis and automated processing to construct high-quality thesaurus, which has practical application value. The final results provide support for the process of indexing, organizing, retrieving and recommending news.

A Digital Thesaurus of Ethnic Groups in the Mekong River Basin

This research was aimed at constructing a thesaurus of the ethnic groups in the Mekong River Basin that is a compilation of controlled vocabularies of both Thai and English language, with a digital platform that enables semantic search and linked open data. The research method involved four steps: (1) organization of knowledge content; (2) construction of the thesaurus; (3) development of a digital thesaurus platform; and (4) evaluation. The concepts and theories used in the research comprised knowledge organization, thesaurus construction, digital platform development, and system evaluation. The tool for developing the digital thesaurus was the Tematres web application. The research results are: (1) there are 4273 principle words related to the ethnic groups that have been compiled and classified by the terms for each of the eight deep levels, 2596 were found to have hierarchical relationships, and 6858 had associative relationships; (2) the digital thesaurus platform was able to manage the controlled vocabularies related to the Mekong ethnic groups by storing both Thai and English vocabularies. When retrieved, the vocabulary, details of the broader term, narrow term, related term, cross reference, and scope note are displayed. Thus, semantic search is viable through applications, linked open data technology, and web services.

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The paper, discussed in this article, aims to construct a controlled vocabulary and thesaurus construction in libraries for the users. All the terms have been displayed in graphical visual vocabulary regarding the different types of terms and associated terms. It explores how to add different terms and subordinated terms by using the TemaTres open source tool and techniques, process, and steps for designing and developing the controlled vocabulary. This is practical work in thesaurus construction or in controlled vocabulary. Designing thesaurus construction is made using TemaTres and Visual Vocabulary. It provides easy access to library resources relating to different facets. Apart from these it can also display the adjacent terms which can increase the recall and accuracy value of the Web 2.0 environment in the information retrieval system. The paper provides the designing an integrated controlled vocabulary framework for libraries. This integrated framework is useful for constructing the thesaurus. The controlled vocabulary and thesaurus construction is an important component in the information retrieval system. This research paper has shown the process and steps of thesaurus construction and visual vocabulary against different terms for easy access of digital library resources. Finally this concept is more practical to all the public libraries and other educational libraries for easy access of vocabulary terms in both offline and online environments.

A co-occurrence based approach of automatic keyword expansion using mass diffusion

The performance of keyword expansion in prior methods is often enhanced by adopting external knowledge. Given a set of initial keywords, this paper is motivated to propose a novel method to expand semantically or conceptually related keywords from domain corpus by employing mass diffusion. A bipartite word network is thus constructed based on co-occurrence relations between initial keywords and candidate words. The expanded keywords are identified via two-step mass diffusion which is carried out in the bipartite network. Experimental results prove that the proposed method outperforms both the typical statistical-based approach and graph-based approach. Our research is expected to complement the theoretical framework of keyword expansion and is applicable to the scenarios of query expansion, thesaurus construction, and text clustering.

La norma argentina de construcción de tesauros IRAM 32057: necesidad de actualización. 1. El vocabulario controlado

The Argentine standard for the construction of monolingual thesaurus (IRAM 32057:1983) was compared with the last editions of the international standard (ISO 2788:1986), and the national standards of Spain (UNE 50106:1990), United States (Z39.19:2005), and Great Britain (BSI 8723-2:2005b), and very well known manuals. The scope and formal issues were analyzed, as well as the conceptual issues for controlled vocabulary. The scope of the Argentine standard is limited to the construction of monolingual thesauri, while the new North-American and British standards also cover different knowledge organization systems. In relation to the formal issues, the Argentine standard has not table of content, analytical index, glossary, bibliography and some sections and annexes, having very few examples. In reference to conceptual issues, some definitions are incorrect or outdated, as well as some recommendations for vocabulary control. We conclude that the Argentine standards should be reviewed and updated in agreement to the recently published standards, and the ISO 25964 standard, still in preparation.

Thesaurus and Ontology Construction for Contra Dance: Knowledge Organization of a North American Folk Dance Domain

This case study aims to preserve and disseminate cultural heritage information about the North American community folk dance tradition of contra dance through development of a thesaurus of choreographic terms and a domain ontology. A survey of dance resources was conducted, reviewing historic and modern examples of contra dance choreography notation and instructions, records of dance events, and recordings of dance performances. Domain and content analysis were performed on the resources to collect and organize concepts and themes regarding choreographic components and their relationships, the structure and function of cultural works, their creative expressions, and the evidence of those expressions in documents and recordings. Vocabulary used in the description of contra dance choreography was identified, classified, and notated to build a thesaurus, which was used as the basis of a domain ontology. Ontology building methodology and existing conceptual models for cultural heritage domains guided the ontology development and revision phases. The study also seeks to safeguard an intangible cultural heritage by applying knowledge organization and semantic approaches to folk dance in order to model such challenges as multiple, simultaneous modes of communication and forms of representation, modular conceptual components, descriptive sequences, differing levels of structured information, and complex cultural networks found at various levels of domain discourse.

Використання тезаурусів для пошуку складних інформаційних об’єктів у Web на основі онтологій

An ontological model of interaction between objects and subjects of the Web semantic search is proposed, its basic elements are characterized, methods for its replenishment and use for filtering information that is pertinent to the personalized needs of users are considered. The types of relations between the instances and classes of this model and their characteristics that can have an influence on the time complexity of processing knowledge presented on the basis of this model, are analyzed. One of the important elements of the proposed model are thesauri that represent knowledge regarding tasks for which users are looking for information, and about information resources where such information can be contained. The expediency of using particular cases of ontology – thesauruses – to find semantically similar information objects is substantiated. The types of thesauruses that are used for semantic search are considered, methods for their replenishment and utilization are proposed, and their characteristics are analyzed. In this paper we proposes an algorithm for the automated construction of simple thesaurus, which is formed on the base of the domain ontology and a natural language description of the user’s problem, and methods for generating composite thesauri that are pertinent to new user tasks which are based on the set of simple thesauruses previously built by user. The expressiveness and computational complexity of the proposed methods which depend on the domain ontology characteristics and on the size of the problem description are estimated. Methods of use of the semantically marked Wiki resources as a source of knowledge for constructing ontologies of subject areas and associated typical information objects are considered. Problems in programming 2019; 4: 28-52

Poetology: Problems of Constructing a Thesaurus and Verse Text Specification

It is a brief version of the report made by the authors at the seminar “Modeling and Analysis of Information Systems,” Yaroslavl, May 17, 2017. The connection between the tasks of automatic thesaurus construction and verse specification is considered.

KEYNOTE: USING THE GETTY VOCABULARIES TO CONNECT RESOURCES IN A LINKED AND OPEN WORLD: GROWING POTENTIAL THROUGH CONTRIBUTIONS

Abstract. The J. Paul Getty Trust is a cultural and philanthropic institution dedicated to the presentation, conservation, and interpretation of the world’s artistic legacy.Through the collective and individual work of its constituent programs – the Getty Conservation Institute, the Getty Foundation, the J Paul Getty Museum, and the Getty Research Institute – the Getty pursues its mission in Los Angeles and throughout the world, serving both the general interested public and a wide range of professional communities in order to promote a vital civil society through an understanding of the visual arts.The Getty Research Institute is dedicated to furthering knowledge and advancing understanding of the visual arts and their various histories through its expertise, active collecting program, public programs, institutional collaborations, exhibitions, publications, digital services, and residential scholars programs. Its Research Library and Special Collections of rare materials and digital resources serve an international community of scholars and the interested public.The Institute's activities and scholarly resources guide and sustain each other and together provide a unique environment for research, critical inquiry, and scholarly exchange.The Getty Vocabularies have been produced and maintained for decades by the Getty Vocabulary Program, which is part of the Getty Research Institute (GRI).They are compliant with ISO and NICO standards for multilingual thesaurus construction and contain terminology and other information about people, places, objects, and art-historical and conservation concepts.They are compiled resources and grow through contributions from various Getty projects and from many external institutions.Although there are now five vocabularies, this talk will concentrate on the three that have been released as Linked Open Data.They are the Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)®, the Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)®, and the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)®. These three vocabularies were the first to be released because they are used universally in the cultural heritage and library communities and represent best practice.The presentation will show examples of how AAT, TGN and ULAN are used and to highlight reasons why they have become such valuable resources. It will provide an overview of some of the major challenges and lessons learned since the vocabularies were made available as LOD. Topics will range from reconciling external resources with the Getty vocabularies to strategies for cultural heritage organizations to contribute new concepts and terminology and the need to easily and quickly provide contributors with the information they need to insert the link into their collection management systems.The goal is not only to work with the community to help everyone make the best use of the LOD datasets, but to make sure the datasets themselves continue to grow through contributions.

Tesauros e ontologias como modelos de sistemas de organização do conhecimento

Discute os conceitos de organização e representação do conhecimento como subsídios para a compreensão dos tesauros e das ontologias enquanto modalidades de sistemas de organização do conhecimento. A análise das relações de complementaridade entre ambos os instrumentos faz-se necessária para reafirmar a concepção de que o aspecto tecnológico e, principalmente, categorial mais os aproxima do que os isola. Subordinando, portanto, os conceitos de tesauro e de ontologias ao conceito mais amplo de sistemas de organização do conhecimento, reflete sobre algumas de suas implicações teóricas e aplicadas. Tais reflexões são orientadas pelo modo como cada instrumento compreende as relações conceituais associativas. Conclui-se que o aparato tecnológico que se utiliza para a caracterização dos conceitos e de suas relações nas ontologias contribui para a construção de tesauros mais sofisticados do ponto de vista da explicitação dos conceitos e das relações conceituais que visa estabelecer. Em outra direção e de modo complementar, o modelo de análise categorial e facetado empregado na construção de tesauros também contribui para a construção de ontologias semântica e estruturalmente mais densas.

An Algorithmic Scheme for Statistical Thesaurus Construction in a Morphologically Rich Language

ABSTRACTCorpus-based automatic thesaurus construction uses linguistic methods, such as Part-of-Speech taggers and parsers, which often perform poorly on MRLs. Therefore, in this paper, we focused on the complex task of adapting corpus-based thesaurus construction methods for MRLs. We investigated two statistical approaches for thesaurus construction; a) a first-order co-occurrence-based approach and b) a second-order distributional-based approach. We explored alternative levels of morphological term representations complemented by grouping the morphological variants. We then introduced and adopted a generic algorithmic scheme for thesaurus construction in MRLs for both first-order and second-order approaches. Our scheme investigated alternative representation levels and offered alternative configurations. We demonstrated the empirical benefits of our methodology for a diachronic Hebrew thesaurus construction. We used morphological analysis tools, defined and applied a new annotation scheme, and demonstrated its optimal configuration, which outperforms the baseline for both first and second order corpus-based thesaurus construction approaches.