Download or read book Vocabulary Control for Information Retrieval written by Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster and published by Arlington, Va. : Information Resources Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why vocabulary control? Pre-coordinate and post-coordinate systems; Vocabulary structure and display; Gathering the raw material; Standards and guidelines; Organization of terms: the hierarchical relationship; Organization of terms: the associative relationship; Terms: form and compounding; The entry vocabulary; Homography and scope notes; Thesaurus display; Vocabulary growth and updating; The role of the computer; Evaluation of thesauri; Multilingual aspects; Automatic approaches to thesaurus construction; Some costs-effectiveness aspects of vocabulary control.