Telos: representing knowledge about information systems
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Expanding end-users' query statements for free text searching with a search-aid thesaurus
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Term relevance feedback and query expansion: relation to design
SIGIR '94 Proceedings of the 17th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Elicitations during information retrieval: implications for IR system design
SIGIR '96 Proceedings of the 19th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Evaluating user interfaces to information retrieval systems: a case study on user support
SIGIR '96 Proceedings of the 19th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Experiments on using semantic distances between words in image caption retrieval
SIGIR '96 Proceedings of the 19th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A method for monolingual thesauri merging
Proceedings of the 20th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Readings in information retrieval
Geographical Information Retrieval with Ontologies of Place
COSIT 2001 Proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory: Foundations of Geographic Information Science
Associative and Spatial Relationships in Thesaurus-Based Retrieval
ECDL '00 Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
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The availability of central reference information as thesauri is critical for correct intellectual access to distributed databases, in particular to digital collections in international networks. There is a continuous raise in interest in thesauri, and several thesaurus management systems have appeared on the market. The issue, how to integrate effectively such central resources into a multitude of client systems and to maintain the consistency of reference in an information network has not yet been satisfactorily solved. We present here a method and an actual thesaurus management system, which is specifically designed for this use, and implements the necessary data structures and management functions. The system handles multiple multilingual thesauri and can be adapted to all semantic thesaurus structures currently in use. Consistency-critical information is kept as history of changes in the form of backward differences. The system has been installed at several sites in Europe.