The Laurin thesaurus: A large, multilingual, electronic thesaurus for newspaper clipping archives

Abstract

This paper describes the Laurin thesaurus, which is used for indexing and searching in the Laurin system, a software package for digital clipping archives. As a multilingual thesaurus it complies with the corresponding standards, though presenting some approaches going beyond some of the standards' recommendations. The Laurin thesaurus integrates all kind of indexing terms, not only keywords, but proper names as well. The system of categories and relationships is described in detail.

Citation

Retti, G. and Stehno, B. (2004), "The Laurin thesaurus: A large, multilingual, electronic thesaurus for newspaper clipping archives", Journal of Documentation, Vol. 60 No. 3, pp. 289-301. https://doi.org/10.1108/00220410410534194