Constructing a technical term thesaurus for appropriate retrieval depending on the levels of domain knowledge

2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 22500226
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Library and information science/Humanistic social informatics
• Research Institution: National Institute of Informatics
• Principal Investigator: UCHIYAMA Kiyoko 国立情報学研究所, コンテンツシステム開発室, 特任研究員 (20458970)
• Project Period (FY): 2010 – 2012
• Keywords: 分野基礎用語 / 専門度 / 分野認知レベル / 専門用語

Research Abstract

This study aims to investigate the occurrence of introductory terms which are defined as basic and essential terms in a target field and study a method for constructing technical terms thesaurus by conducting three topics as below. (1) Analysis of criteria for introductory terms, (2) a method for the degree of introductory terms, and (3) possibility of system implementation. Three basic criteria that are essential for a given target field are proposed as the introductory terms. The proposed criteria are priority, compositionality, and logicality. These criteria can help to clarify the learning strategy and to studying thesaurus based on the given textbooks, the variety of types of and the tokens of constituent in compound words, and the term distribution in the structure of the text