Automatic thesaurus construction using Bayesian networks
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: history of information science
Thesaurus construction: problems and their roots
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Knowledge representation: logical, philosophical and computational foundations
Knowledge representation: logical, philosophical and computational foundations
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Natural language processing in support of decision-making: phrases and part-of-speech tagging
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Building a large thesaurus for information retrieval
ANLC '88 Proceedings of the second conference on Applied natural language processing
Word classification and hierarchy using co-occurrence word information
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Browsing mixed structured and unstructured data
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Is 1 noun worth 2 adjectives?: measuring relative feature utility
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Role of thesauri in the information management in the web-based services and systems
Transactions on computational collective intelligence III
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A thesaurus and an ontology provide a set of structured terms, phrases, and metadata, often in a hierarchical arrangement, that may be used to index, search, and mine documents. We describe the decisions that should be made when including a term, deciding whether a term should be subdivided into its subclasses, or determining which of more than one set of possible subclasses should be used. Based on retrospective measurements or estimates of future performance when using thesaurus terms in document ordering, decisions are made so as to maximize performance. These decisions may be used in the automatic construction of a thesaurus. The evaluation of an existing thesaurus is described, consistent with the decision criteria developed here. These kinds of user-focused decision-theoretic techniques may be applied to other hierarchical applications, such as faceted classification systems used in information architecture or the use of hierarchical terms in ''breadcrumb navigation''.