[Sigia-l] Thesaurus Construction Software

[brendaj]

This software looks like it is intended to create a thesaurus-as-interface, 
which is definitely valuable, but I wonder if it will be helpful for me.

I need to index a relatively small database of 200 records, but don't 
necessarily need to relate one to another (that's already done with 
categories/subcategories).

What I need is a tool that will help me create both terms and a thesaurus 
for those terms (synonyms, variants) to support a relatively simple 
keyword search feature.  (This indexing won't ever be made visible to the 
user in the interface.)  This thesaurus will supplement automatic indexing 
done by crawling actual content in the records.

Any recommendations for tools for this task beyond good ol' Excel?  Is this 
type of tool what I should be using?

I guess what I need to end up with is a list of preferred terms for each 
record, and a lookup table of related terms.  Will MultiTes give me that?

You can respond directly and I'll post a summary.

Thanks.

-Brenda



>===== Original Message From Laura Norvig <lauran at etr.org> =====
>Colleagues,
>
>Now that I have Virtual PC, I am going to evaluate the only
>affordable thesaurus construction software I have been able to find.
>It is called MultiTes.
>http://www.multites.com/
>
>I'll let you know shortly what I think of it. Anyone else out there
>ever used it and have any comments? Avi?
>
>Have I missed the existence of a Mac-compatible thesaurus software?
>
>Apologies if this is too specialized a topic for this listserv.
>--
>Laura Norvig, MLIS
>"Intelligent Human Agent"
>lauran at etr.org