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标题：Knowledge Representation in the Spiritual and Cultural Domains
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作者：K. S. Raghavan
期刊名称：The Open Information Science Journal
电子版ISSN：1874-947X
出版年度：2011
卷号：3
页码：5-11
DOI：10.2174/1874947X00902010005
出版社：Bentham Science Publishers Ltd
摘要：
Knowledge organization systems such as thesauri are intended to structure and represent concepts in a domain in a manner that facilitates their effective employment in knowledge representation, i.e. representation of subjects of information resources (Classification and indexing) and users’ queries (search and retrieval). Representation of ‘aboutness’ of a discourse and of the concepts in it is, to some extent, a function of the nature and characteristics of the ‘domain’. Design of multilingual thesauri for multicultural domains such as ‘spirituality’ present many problems – both structural and semantic. Based on the experience in working on two multilingual thesauri in culture-specific domains, the principal issues that arise have been identified and illustrated with a few examples. The strategies that have been adopted to overcome the problems are also explained. A few general principles that could serve as guidelines in building multilingual thesauri especially in culture-specific domains have been suggested.