The South Asian Canadian Digital Archive (SACDA) is a soon-to-be-released digital repository developed by the Studies Institute at University of Fraser Valley, located in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada. SACDA partners with memory institutions, individuals, families, and organizations to digitize, describe, provide online public access heritage materials created by, or relevant to, diaspor...

OBJECTIVE The National Cancer Institute Thesaurus is described by its authors as "a biomedical vocabulary that provides consistent, unambiguous codes and definitions for concepts used in cancer research" and which "exhibits ontology-like properties in its construction and use". We performed a qualitative analysis of the Thesaurus in order to assess its conformity with principles of good practic...

The purpose of this paper is to report the findings of a systematic literature review carried out to investigate the applications and potential roles of thesaurus in digital libraries. It also describes the process of systematic literature review (SLR) followed to carry out this study. 466 unique publications from Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) and Scopus had been subjected to...

The paper considers interrelations between lexical cohesion and the thematic structure of a text. The technique of automatic construction of the thematic representation of the text contexts is described. The technique uses knowledge from Sociopolitical thesaurus, which was specially developed as a tool for automatic text processing.

This paper compares the "radial category" of image schemas derived for the polysemous word "over", by Brugman and Lakoff, 1987, with the lexical networks for "over" derived by the author, from Roget's International Thesaurus, 3rd Edition, and The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition.

In the field of Natural Language Processing, in order to work out a thematic representation system of general knowledge, methods relying on thesaurus have been used for about twenty years. A thesaurus consists of a set of concepts which define a generating system of a vector space modelling general knowledge. These concepts, often organized in a treelike structure, constitute a fundamental, but...

This work proposes a formal characterization of the schemabased thesaurus mapping problem as well as a specific approach within such framework on a case study aimed at mapping five thesauri of interest for European Union institutions.

Purpose To propose a comprehensive and semi-automatic method for constructing or updating knowledge organization tools such as thesaurus. Methodology We propose a comprehensive methodology for thesaurus construction and maintenance combining shallow NLP with a clustering algorithm and an information visualization interface. The resulting system TermWatch, extracts terms from a text collection, ...

We describe a solution for matching Linked Open Data (LOD) entities to concepts within a local thesaurus. The solution is currently integrated into a demonstrator of the PoolParty thesaurus management software. The underlying motivation is to support thesaurus users in linking locally relevant concepts in a thesaurus to descriptions available openly on the Web. Our concept matching algorithm ra...