a book containing systematized lists of synonyms and related words
2.
a dictionary of selected words or topics
3. rare
a treasury
Word origin
C18: from Latin, Greek: treasure
Examples of 'thesauri' in a sentence
thesauri
Mapping rules are summarized to provide a good reference for mapping between the two thesauri.
Junzhi Jia, Rongjuan Wei Junzhi Jia, Rongjuan Wei 2012, '圖書館事業與交流／Mapping between the Chinese Thesaurus and Library of Congress Subject Headingsin SKOS／Junzhi Jia, Rongjuan Wei', Tushuguanxue yu Zixun Kexuehttp://jlis.glis.ntnu.edu.tw/ojs/index.php/jlis/article/view/581. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Synonym expansion approaches apply thesauri, ontologies, and query logs.
Jinbo Chen, Uwe Scholz, Ruonan Zhou, Matthias Lange 2018, 'LAILAPS-QSM: A RESTful API and JAVA library for semantic query suggestions.', PLoS Computational Biologyhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5871001?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Several thesauri have been published in various domains, or in the same subject domain.
Yunseon Choi 2018, 'Vocabulary Integration Reexamined', International Journal of Librarianship (IJoL)https://ojs.calaijol.org/index.php/ijol/article/view/91. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
For this purpose, three thesauri were created as fixed literature-based categorizationschemes.
Manuel W. Bickel 2017, 'A new approach to semantic sustainability assessment: text mining via network analysisrevealing transition patterns in German municipal climate action plans', Energy, Sustainability and Societyhttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13705-017-0125-0. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In this study, we examine the impact and extent of undocumented synonymy within a very large compendium of biomedical thesauri.
David R Blair, Kanix Wang, Svetlozar Nestorov, James A Evans, Andrey Rzhetsky 2014, 'Quantifying the impact and extent of undocumented biomedical synonymy.', PLoS Computational Biologyhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4177665?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
To achieve interoperability between different thesauri, mapping systems have been developedfor establishing equivalents between terms in different thesauri.
Yunseon Choi 2018, 'Vocabulary Integration Reexamined', International Journal of Librarianship (IJoL)https://ojs.calaijol.org/index.php/ijol/article/view/91. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Overall, our results expose the dramatic incompleteness of current biomedical thesauri and suggest the need for "next-generation," high-coverage lexical terminologies.
David R Blair, Kanix Wang, Svetlozar Nestorov, James A Evans, Andrey Rzhetsky 2014, 'Quantifying the impact and extent of undocumented biomedical synonymy.', PLoS Computational Biologyhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4177665?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)