Thesaurus Construction                         body { padding-top: 50px; padding-bottom: 20px; }               Toggle navigation             Faculty      Best Practices 2015     WISE at ALISE 2014     Event Calendar       Students      What is WISE?     Sample Wise Courses (PDF)     WISE Student FAQ     Student Feedback     Event Calendar       Universities      Joining WISE       Support      Contact Us        Login   Student University Admin              Submit                   Thesaurus Construction Overview of thesaurus construction, vocabulary control and ontology. Specific techniques for design and construction of thesauri, including domain analysis, vocabulary extraction, concept clustering, ordering, and identifying structural relations, and thesaurus maintenance. Students will become conversant with the principles and standards for thesaurus construction, including but not limited to domain analysis, vocabulary control, and ontology. Students will gain understanding of the broader theoretical context in which thesauri function. We will begin with techniques for analyzing the vocabulary of a domain, then we will study the use of various existing thesauri. Students will build a thesaurus in a domain of their choice. The relationship between domain vocabulary and ontology will be explored. 3 credits.

         Class Name Thesaurus Construction    Host School  The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee    Class Identifier INFOST 716    Credit Value 3 Credit Hours   Faculty Smiraglia   Course Tool (Online) Desire2Learn   Class Description Overview of thesaurus construction, vocabulary control and ontology. Specific techniques for design and construction of thesauri, including domain analysis, vocabulary extraction, concept clustering, ordering, and identifying structural relations, and thesaurus maintenance. Students will become conversant with the principles and standards for thesaurus construction, including but not limited to domain analysis, vocabulary control, and ontology. Students will gain understanding of the broader theoretical context in which thesauri function. We will begin with techniques for analyzing the vocabulary of a domain, then we will study the use of various existing thesauri. Students will build a thesaurus in a domain of their choice. The relationship between domain vocabulary and ontology will be explored. 3 credits.   Class Disclaimer None   Delivery Asynchronous   Start and End Date January 25th, 2016 - May 10th, 2016   Start and End Time(if synchronous)     Days of Week(of class meetings, if synchronous)     Last Add Day January 11th, 2016   Residency Start and End Date No Residency          Login to request enrollment Go back to class list             The three pillars of Wise

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