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Terminology across Languages and Domains
Edited by Patrick Drouin, Natalia Grabar, Thierry Hamon and Kyo Kageura
[Terminology 21:2] 2015
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The Sociopolitical Thesaurus as a resource for automatic document processing in Russian

This paper presents the structure and current state of the Sociopolitical thesaurus, which was developed for automatic document analysis and information-retrieval applications in Russian in a broad domain of public affairs. The scope of the Sociopolitical thesaurus resembles traditional information-retrieval thesauri for broad domains such as the EUROVOC or UNBIS thesauri, but the Sociopolitical thesaurus is intended as a tool for automatic document processing and this difference leads to considerable distinctions in the thesaurus structure and principles of its development. The knowledge representation in the Sociopolitical thesaurus is based on the combination of three existing traditions of developing information-retrieval thesauri, wordnets, and formal ontology research, which facilitates the consistent representation for such a broad scope of concepts and automatic document analysis of unstructured texts. The Sociopolitical thesaurus is used in such applications as conceptual indexing in information-retrieval systems, knowledge-based text categorization, automatic summarization of single and multiple documents, and question-answering. This paper presents an evaluation of the Sociopolitical thesaurus in automatic knowledge-based text categorization.
Keywords: thesaurus, general lexicon, sociopolitical domain, text categorization, ontological dependence, multiword expressions, automatic document processing
Published online: 31 December 2015
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