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Thesauri are knowledge models commonly used for information classification and retrieval whose structure is defined by standards that describe the main features the concepts and relations must have. However, following these standards requires a deep knowledge of the field the thesaurus is going to cover and experience in their creation. To help in this task, this paper describes a software processing chain that provides different validation components that evaluates the quality of the main thesaurus features.
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This work has been partially supported by the Keystone COST Action IC1302 and by the University of Zaragoza (project UZ2016-TEC-05).
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Lacasta, J., Falquet, G., Nogueras-Iso, J., Zarazaga-Soria, J. (2017). A Software Processing Chain for Evaluating Thesaurus Quality. In: Calì, A., Gorgan, D., Ugarte, M. (eds) Semantic Keyword-Based Search on Structured Data Sources. IKC 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10151. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53640-8_8
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