Etheridge joined the archive in 2000 and has, over the years, worked on a number of projects, including the Humanities and Social Science Electronic
Thesaurus (HASSET) and the European Language Social Science
Thesaurus (ELSST).
The 1990s: A Music
Thesaurus Prototype and Other Endeavors
Our approach was based on literature investigation and practice observation and aims to draw conceptual directions of AF Taxonomy and/or
Thesaurus construction.
The Historical
Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (HTOED)--which contains almost every word from the days of Beowulf to the present, some 920,000 words and expressions in all--seems the sort of resource that has been sitting on reference shelves for decades.
Nielsen (2004) summarizes recent literature on the
thesaurus and includes a section on the subtype of the searching
thesaurus, where efforts are focused on the
thesaurus as a tool for users rather than for indexers.
One purpose of a
thesaurus is, "to provide a map of a given field of knowledge, indicating how concepts or ideas about concepts are related to one another, which helps an indexer or a searcher to understand the structure of the field" (Fosket 1980, p.
A fuzzy-related
thesaurus is used in this retrieval system.
La decima version del
Thesaurus of psychological index terms fue editada por Lisa A.
There's some great Brendan Klein photos in there, and plenty of other skate stuff, mixed with funny writing in some font I've never seen before, except perhaps on death metal bands' records, like the ones who go way too deep into the
thesaurus for their name, as if fonts mattered.
Merriam-Webster Electronic Dictionary and
Thesaurus offers more than 100, 000 words and 500,000 synonyms.
MatchPoint also features a concept searching technology that automatically generates a
thesaurus directly from the enterprise's own document set and uses it to expand the user query to synonyms and related terms.
Popular programs such as Microsoft Word now include a spelling and grammar checker,
thesaurus, clip art, hyperlink, page layout, envelope and label creation, mail merge and other tools that used to be provided by other programs.
