Résumé : Nous présentons dans cet article un outil d’étiquetage de plusieurs thesaurus afin d’aider des experts ayant des besoins différents à les mettre en correspondance. L’étiquetage des différents thesaurus, appelés thesaurus sources, est effectué à l’aide d’un thesaurus pivot. Il consiste à étiqueter chaque élément des thesaurus sources le plus largement possible avec des éléments du thesa...

In many archives of audiovisual documents, retrieval is done using metadata from a structured vocabulary or thesaurus. In practice, many of these thesauri have limited or no structure. The objective of this paper is to find out whether retrieval of audiovisual resources from a collection indexed with an in-house thesaurus can be improved by anchoring the thesaurus to an external, semantically r...

A thesaurus is a reference work that lists words grouped together according to similarity of meaning (containing synonyms and sometimes antonyms), in contrast to a dictionary, which contains definitions and pronunciations. This paper proposes an innovative approach to improve the classification performance of Persian texts considering a very large thesaurus. The paper proposes a flexible method...

This paper describes the motivation for, and methodology behind the creation of ELSST (European Language Social Science Thesaurus), a broad-based multilingual thesaurus for the social sciences. The thesaurus was produced by the UK Data Archive (UKDA) as part of the EU-funded LIMBER (Language Independent Metadata Browsing of European Resources) project and was derived from their in-house English...

The paper describes the structure and properties of a large linguistic ontology – a new kind of information retrieval thesaurus Thesaurus on Sociopolitical Life for Conceptual Indexing. The thesaurus is used in various realscale information-retrieval applications in the legal domain. At present one of the main applications of the Thesaurus is knowledge-based text categorization. Categories are ...