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Turning "Roget's Thesaurus" into a Czech thesaurus
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Klégr, Aleš |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | Turning "Roget's Thesaurus" into a Czech Thesaurus in a report on how a thesaurus of the Czech language was compiled on the basis of Roget.s Thesaurus, the following issues are covered: 1. Reasons for undertaking the thesaurus project-to redress the unbalance between the semasiological and onomasiological description of Czech by compiling a counterpart to the two large alphabetical dictionaries of Czech; 2. Strategy and philosophy, and the choice of the source text-combination of translation and original compilation; decision to use an available and well-proven model, a shorter version of Roget's Thesaurus, to resolve the issue of a classificatory system and format; 3. Phase one: a project grant-awarded by Charles University for a three-year project, Computerized Thesaurus of the Czech Language, resulting in a preliminary translated version of the Czech thesaurus and the publication of a sample volume as an output; 4. Phase two: expanded version for publication-moving from translation to original compilation for greater autonomy of the Czech thesaurus and expanding the average of 80 items per entry to 300 using Czech sources; specific rules required for entry structure, the type and order of subentries, etc, to ensure the uniform format of the entries; 5. Compiling the index-to achieve the standard index-length equal to that of the dictionary text, a procedure combining manual and mechanical shortening was devised to abridge the dictionary text; 6. Conclusion. Compilation of a thesaurus via translation from another language is a possible procedure. Supplementing translation with original compilation based on target-language resources is nevertheless recommended if a truly national thesaurus is to result. |
| Starting Page | 697 |
| Ending Page | 701 |
| Page Count | 5 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.euralex.org/elx_proceedings/Euralex2008/033_Euralex_2008_Ales%20Klegr_Turning%20Rogets%20Thesaurus%20into%20a%20Czech%20Thesaurus.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.euralex.org/elx_proceedings/Euralex2008/058_Euralex_2008_Ales%20Klegr_Turning%20Rogets%20Thesaurus%20into%20a%20Czech%20Thesaurus.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
