Abstract:
Two approaches to a semi-mechanical method of generating a thesaurus based on a scheme for classification and faceted subject structuring respectively, are mentioned. The problems in identifying non-hierarchical
associative relationships (NHR) among ideas are indicated. About
thirty types of NHR, taken from different sources, are enumerated. The representation of NHRs between component ideas of subjects as facet relation (FR), speciator relation (SpR), coordinate relation (CR), and phase
relation (PR) according to S R Ranganathan's model for structuring of subject is illustrated with examples. The use of the subject structures as data base for. computer-generation of thesaurus and guidelines for the direct representation of the NIIR -- identified as FR, SpR, CR, and PR -- as RT links in the thesaurus, are briefly discussed.
