Thesaurus Construction and Use

by Jean Aitchison

A practical guide to the construction of thesauri for use in information retrieval, written by leading experts in the field. Includes: planning and design; vocabulary control; specificity and compound terms; structure and relationships; auxiliary retrieval devices; multilingual thesauri; AAT Compound Term Rules. The US ANSI/NISO Z39.19 Thesaurus construction standard is also covered.

Genres: Nonfiction, Library Science, Librarianship

230 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1997

About the author

Born Jean Binns on 10 June 1925.

Aitchison was an independent consultant specializing in thesaurus design and construction. She held a number of posts in public and special libraries prior to taking up consultancy work.

Reviews

[Alexander O. Smith]

Spoilers:
Flip-flops are synonymous with bistable multivibrators. It also said other useful things, however that would give the plot away. 5/5, very entertained.

[Wendy]

You will drop a c-note on this book but it is worth every penny. It will teach you more about classification than anything but an LC publication.