Roget's International Thesaurus: Conceptual Issues and Potential Applications

Authors

  • Elizabeth D. Liddy
  • Caroline A. Hert
  • Philip Doty

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7152/acro.v1i1.12468

Abstract

This paper reports our preliminary investigation into the classificatory nature of Roget's International Thesaurus (RIT), 3rd ed. (1962) and the potential applicability of the machinereadable version for facilitating human or system language tasks in a variety of settings. We will discuss the nature and structure of RIT; present background infonnation on Roget. his intellectual milieu, and his view of the purpose of the thesaurus; and enumerate some possible applications of the machine-readable version or RIT including applications in information retrieval, natural language processing, machine translation, and other language-related tasks.

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Published

1990-10-06

Issue

1st ASIS SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop

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