Thesaurus Construction and Use
A Practical Manual
4th Edition
Published on 2. September 2003
240 pages
978-1-135-47643-4 (ISBN)
Description
A practical guide to the construction of thesauri for use in information retrieval, written by leading experts in the field. Includes: planning and design; vocabulary control; specificity and compound terms; structure and relationships; auxiliary retrieval devices; multilingual thesauri; AAT Compound Term Rules. The US ANSI/NISO Z39.19 Thesaurus construction standard is also covered.
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Edition
4th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
18,56 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-135-47643-4 (9781135476434)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
12/2000
4th Edition
Europa Publications Ltd
€141.12
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Persons
Alan Gilchrist, Jean Aitchison, David Bawden
Content
Nature, purposes and uses of thesauri; planning and design of thesauri; standards for thesaurus construction and development; vocabulary control; specificity and compound terms; structure and relationships; auxiliary retrieval deviced; thesaurus displays; multilingual thesauri; construction techniques; thesaurus management; thesaurus reconciliation and integration; AAT compound term rules.
