Construction of a Computer Based Amharic Thesaurus in Water Technology for Use with Information Storage and Retrieval Systems
No Thumbnail Available
Date
1992-05
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Addis Ababa University
Abstract
A thesaurus is an organized list of vocabulary in one or- more
disciplines structured in such a way that synonymous, broade,
narrower and related terms are presented in alphabetical
sequence. It is used to guide the user as to which descriptor
to select f r om the indexing language for indexing or gettingĀ·
access into a database to retrieve relevant information.
The objective of this work is to construct a computer- based
Amharic Thesaurus in water technology. Considering the
responsibilities entrusted upon and the amount of information
generated by the Water Resources Commission of Ethiopia, this
thesaurus is of immense importance in collecting, analyzing
and indexing water related documents written in Amharic, which
are hitherto not properly processed, catalogued and indexed
for easy r etrieval .
After extensive discussions with experts in the field and
project site visits, an English-Amharic dictionary holding
some 2000 terms was created for use in defining terms and
identifying interrelationships among the terms. Then,
relationships among these terms entered into the thesaurus was
established according to the principles of thesaurus
construction. Finally, a sample database of the indexinglanguage is formed using CDS / ISIS, THES. PAS Program
translated into Amharic.
The work is not fully complete. Further effort is needed to
automate the thesaurus entirely and to include local terms
that are not yet fully covered. The task of facilitating the
development of a multi-lingual system is also an area to be
seriously considered in the future.
Description
Keywords
Construction of A Computer Based Amharic