thesaurus

Summary

thesaurus ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (60 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• thesaurus is a type of controlled vocabulary^[2].
• thesaurus is a type of network^[3].
• thesaurus is part of information system^[4].
• thesaurus is used for document retrieval^[5].
• thesaurus is used for information retrieval^[6].
• thesaurus comprises related term^[7].
• thesaurus comprises broader term^[8].
• thesaurus comprises narrower term^[9].
• thesaurus comprises preferred term^[10].
• thesaurus comprises non-preferred term^[11].
• thesaurus comprises relation^[12].
• thesaurus comprises synonym^[13].
• thesaurus comprises quasi-synonym^[14].
• thesaurus comprises scope note^[15].
• thesaurus comprises top term^[16].
• thesaurus comprises concept^[17].
• thesaurus's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Thesauri^[18].
• thesaurus's described at URL is recorded as https://books.infotoday.com/asist/Powering-Search/Sample-Chapter.pdf^[19].
• thesaurus's described by source is recorded as ISO 25964-1:2011^[20].
• thesaurus's partially coincident with is recorded as thesaurus^[21].
• thesaurus's different from is recorded as thesaurus^[22].
• thesaurus's different from is recorded as ontology^[23].
• thesaurus's different from is recorded as taxonomy^[24].
• thesaurus's different from is recorded as authority file^[25].
• thesaurus's name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'information retrieval thesaurus'}^[26].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include controlled vocabulary^[2] and network^[3].

Use and Application

Recorded has use include document retrieval^[5] and information retrieval^[6]. Components include related term^[7]; broader term^[8], a type of term^[27]; narrower term^[9], a type of term^[28]; preferred term^[10]; non-preferred term^[11], a type of term^[29]; and relation^[12], a type of property^[30]. thesaurus is part of information system^[4].

Why It Matters

thesaurus ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (60 views/month).^[1] thesaurus has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[31] thesaurus is known by 29 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[32]