IMPROVING THE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL THESAURUS ON AGRICULTURE AND FOOD AS A TERMINOLOGY REFERENCE BOOK

DOI 10.32651/248-58

Issue № 8, 2024, article № 7, pages 58-62

Section: Agrarian science

Language: Russian

Original language title: СОВЕРШЕНСТВОВАНИЕ ИНФОРМАЦИОННО-ПОИСКОВОГО ТЕЗАУРУСА ПО СЕЛЬСКОМУ ХОЗЯЙСТВУ И ПРОДОВОЛЬСТВИЮ КАК ТЕРМИНОЛОГИЧЕСКОГО СПРАВОЧНИКА

Keywords: TERMINOLOGY, THESAURI, LINGUISTIC TOOLS, AUTOMATED SYSTEMS, INFORMATION SYSTEMS, AGROINDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, CSAL

Abstract: The results of the FSBSI CSAL scientific work for updating and replenishing the Information Retrieval Thesaurus on Agriculture and Food (IRPT) with new vocabulary to ensure accurate display of the content of documents in the indexing process, unified data presentation, adequate description of subject areas, effective thematic search and its adaptation in the OPAC-Global ILS are presented. The advantages of a simplified form for inputting new thesaurus concepts and editing previously created ones in this ILS are given, which make it possible to significantly simplify the work and reduce the number of operations required to create language entries of terms and thereby increase the labour efficiency of an indexer. The study enriched greatly the ILS content with new vocabulary in the following thematic areas: plant protection, zoology, forestry, food and the processing industry. As a result of the work performed, there has been formed a new version of the ILS containing 67088 lexical units (LU). More than 31380 LU are scientific (Latin) names of organisms. In total about 2,700 LU were corrected (added, changed, deleted). There were added 1,322 LU with the status of a synonym, of which 1,094 LU are scientific names of organisms. The updated version of the thesaurus, which includes new terminology, makes it possible to adequately describe the subject areas, accurately disclose the content of a document during its scientific processing and is an effective means of indexing and thematic search. The creation and development of ILS corresponds to the current level of thesaurus development. The volume of the ILS, the development of its language entries, and the semantic links of terms presented in it allow for a fairly complete description of the subject areas relating to agriculture, the food industry and related disciplines.

Authors: Sokolova ZHanna Vladimirovna