Abstract
This poster describes a pilot study investigating what, if any, associative thesaural relationships are identifiable and distinguishable to information seekers. Using associative relationships from the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), we asked potential library users via Amazon Mechanical Turk to identify six narrower distinctions of established associative relationship types. Preliminary results from the survey indicate that some associative relationship types, such as near synonym and agent/process, are indeed identifiable, while others, like position in time and space, remain problematic.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Journal | Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2012 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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Keywords
- Associative relationships
- LCSH
- Thesauri
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Information Systems
- Library and Information Sciences
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Can you relate? A study of user perceptions of thesaural subject relationships. / Clarke, Rachel; Lee, Jin Ha.
In: Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, Vol. 49, No. 1, 2012.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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