Automated system for generating thesaurus from subject representations

Abstract

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:" times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="" lang="EN-US">Several experiments were conducted at the Documentation Research and Training Centre for generating thesaurus from schedules of classification and subject representation structured according postulates and principles for facet analysis. The work reported in this paper uses a coding scheme developed for augmenting the subject strings to make them suitable for generating thesaurus. The system is fully automatic unlike earlier systems. It has five phases namely, Coding phase, Term-pair Generation phase, Coordinate Term-pair Generation phase, Translation phase and Printing phase. The system is described briefly giving the systems flow chart and inputs and outputs of the different phases together with a sample printout of a model thesaurus generating using test data of about 60 subject strings in telephony.</span>