[esip-semanticweb] NASA thesaurus

[Beth Huffer]

That would be great if it could be leveraged for similarity 
computation.  I just tried it with the "perform indexing" feature, 
entering the term "aircraft" and got no results.  But when I put 
"aircraft" into the "Search Thesaurus" box I get a pretty long list of 
results, all of which appear to be types of aircraft. There's an OWL 
version of the thesaurus, but it doesn't appear to be an ontology.  Or 
at any rate, it's an ontology for a world in which only linguistic 
entities exist. (It contains classes such as ControlledVocabulary, 
ThesaurusTerm, PreferredTerm...) In the class of PreferredTerm, there 
are 18,336 individuals with uri's like PT37801. These are linked to 
termName, which gives the English term associated with the uri as a 
literal. Here's a screen shot of it in Topbraid Composer. Maybe with a 
little NLP some semantics could be imposed on it?




On 4/29/14, 10:55 AM, Marshall X Ma wrote:
>
> Thanks Beth and Mike,
>
> I just found on the page of the thesaurus I saw the link to an 
> application NASA Thesaurus Machine Aided Indexing: 
> http://mai.larc.nasa.gov/
>
> The instruction says 'Enter text that you wish to be indexed into the 
> text entry box above. Click on the *Perform Indexing* button to 
> analyze the text for matches with the NASA Thesaurus. Any matching 
> terms from the Thesaurus will be displayed. The terms are links that 
> when clicked will display (in the lower right frame) the hierarchical 
> and related data about this term from the NASA Thesaurus.'
>
> There could be some semantic similarity computation within the 
> application?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marshall
>
> **
>
> Replied/forwarded by
>
> *Xiaogang (Marshall) Ma*
>
> TWC, RPI
>
> *From:*esip-semanticweb-bounces at lists.esipfed.org 
> [mailto:esip-semanticweb-bounces at lists.esipfed.org] *On Behalf Of 
> *LITTLE, MICHAEL M (LARC-E301)
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 29, 2014 07:51
> *To:* Beth Huffer; esip-semanticweb at lists.esipfed.org
> *Subject:* Re: [esip-semanticweb] NASA thesaurus
>
> At Langley, in the OCIO, we are using it in conjunction with IBM 
> Content Analytics for the NASA Technology Roadmaps being revised this 
> spring/summer. It's not very, uh, modern.
>
> mike little
>
> On Apr 29, 2014, at 7:38 AM, Beth Huffer <beth at lingualogica.net 
> <mailto:beth at lingualogica.net>>
>
>  wrote:
>
>
>
> Marshall,
>
> I'm vaguely familiar with the thesaurus. But I am not aware of any 
> applications using it.  I would also be really interested in hearing 
> from anyone who knows of any.
>
> Beth
>
> On 4/28/14, 2:28 PM, Marshall X Ma wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     Is anyone here know the NASA thesaurus and/or any applications
>     with it: http://www.sti.nasa.gov/sti-tools/#thesaurus
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Marshall
>
>     **
>
>     Replied/forwarded by
>
>     *Xiaogang (Marshall) Ma*
>
>     TWC, RPI
>
>
>
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