Title: Turning "Roget's Thesaurus" into a Czech thesaurus
Abstract: Turning into a Czech Thesaurus in a report on how a thesaurus of
the Czech language was compiled on the basis of Roget.s Thesaurus, the following
issues are covered:
1. Reasons for undertaking the thesaurus project-to redress the unbalance between
the semasiological and onomasiological description of Czech by compiling a
counterpart to the two large alphabetical dictionaries of Czech;
2. Strategy and philosophy, and the choice of the source text-combination of
translation and original compilation; decision to use an available and well-proven
model, a shorter version of Roget's Thesaurus, to resolve the issue of a
classificatory system and format;
3. Phase one: a project grant-awarded by Charles University for a three-year
project, Computerized Thesaurus of the Czech Language, resulting in a
preliminary translated version of the Czech thesaurus and the publication of a
sample volume as an output;
4. Phase two: expanded version for publication-moving from translation to original
compilation for greater autonomy of the Czech thesaurus and expanding the
average of 80 items per entry to 300 using Czech sources; specific rules required
for entry structure, the type and order of subentries, etc, to ensure the uniform
format of the entries;
5. Compiling the index-to achieve the standard index-length equal to that of the
dictionary text, a procedure combining manual and mechanical shortening was
devised to abridge the dictionary text;
6. Conclusion. Compilation of a thesaurus via translation from another language is a
possible procedure. Supplementing translation with original compilation based on
target-language resources is nevertheless recommended if a truly national
thesaurus is to result.
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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