Can you relate? A study of user perceptions of thesaural subject relationships

Rachel Ivy Clarke; Jin Ha Lee

doi:10.1002/meet.14504901278

Can you relate? A study of user perceptions of thesaural subject relationships

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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)
Pages (from-to)	1-4
Number of pages	4
Journal	Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting
Volume	49
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/meet.14504901278
State	Published - 2012
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Associative relationships
LCSH
Thesauri

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Information Systems
Library and Information Sciences

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Can you relate? A study of user perceptions of thesaural subject relationships

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