Domain-Specific Thesaurus

A Domain-Specific Thesaurus is a Thesaurus that applies within some Subject Area.

• AKA: Subject Area Thesaurus.
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• Example(s):
  • a Gene Name Thesaurus.
  • a Product Name Thesaurus.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a General Purpose Thesaurus.
• See: Subject Area Glossary, Terminology Dictionary.

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References

2006

• (Fang et al., 2006) ⇒ Haw-ren Fang, Kevin P. Murphy, Yang Jin, Jessica S. Kim, and Peter S. White. (2006). “Human Gene Name Normalization Using Text Matching with Automatically Extracted Synonym Dictionaries.” In: Proceedings of the BioNLP Workshop on Linking Natural Language Processing and Diology (BioNLP 2006).

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