Computer-Aided Knowledge Engineering for Corporate Information Retrieval

Authors

  • Marlene Rockmore

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7152/acro.v1i1.12473

Abstract

In 1987, Digital Equipment Corporation's internal Madret Information Services Group I Information Access Services (lAS) decided to build a single thesaurus system to support production and retrieval of multiple applications. This system TIMS (Thesaurus I Indexing Management System) bad to be dynamic and allow for easy modification and merging of volatile business terminology. A faceted approach was used for knowledge-base building and semantic representation. 1be system allowed the knowledge engineer to determine a classification structure and to develop relation types suited to a specific application's requirements.

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Published

1990-10-06