Thesaurus Construction and Use

Book excerpt: This handbook on thesaurus construction outlines the purposes and uses of thesauri, the planning and design of thesauri, and the standards for thesaurus construction and development. It also discusses specific elements of thesaurus construction, like vocabulary control, specificity and compound terms, structure and relationships, auxiliary retrieval devises, displays, reconciliation and integration. Consideration is also given to issues of thesaurus management, and the demands of multilingual thesauri. An appendix features the AAT Compound Term Rules. Aitchison and Gilchrist are each consultants. Bawden teaches information science at City University London. c. Book News Inc.