Unlocking the semantics of Roget's Thesaurus.

Old, L John

Abstract

Roget's Thesaurus is a semantic dictionary that is organized by concepts rather than words. It has an elaborate implicit structure that has not, in the 150 years since its inception, been made explicit. Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is a tool that can be used by researchers for the organization, analysis and visualization of complex hidden structures. In this paper we illustrate two ways in which FCA is being used to explicate the implicit structures in Roget's Thesaurus: implications and Type-10 chain components.

Citation

Old, L. J. (2004). Unlocking the semantics of Roget's Thesaurus.

• Conference Name: Second International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis
• Start Date: Feb 23, 2004
• End Date: Feb 24, 2004
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2004
• Deposit Date: Jun 6, 2008
• Publicly Available Date: May 16, 2017
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 236-243
• ISBN: 3-540-21043-1
• Keywords: Thesauri; Semantics; Computational linguistics; Automated indexing; Data reduction; Mathematical trees; Formal concept analysis; FCA; Cognitive science;Cognitive systems - Glossaries - Mathematical models
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/1770