Editing Thesaurus (section)

==Information science and natural language processing==
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In [[library science|library]] and [[information science]], a thesaurus is a kind of [[controlled vocabulary]].

A thesaurus can form part of an [[Ontology (computer science)|ontology]] and be represented in the [[Simple Knowledge Organization System]] (SKOS).<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Miles|first1=Alistair|last2=Bechhofer|first2=Sean|date=2009|title=SKOS simple knowledge organization system reference|url=https://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/|journal=W3C Recommendation|language=en|volume=18|pages=W3C}}</ref>

Thesauri are used in [[natural language processing]] for [[word-sense disambiguation]]<ref>Yarowsky, David. "[https://aclanthology.info/pdf/C/C92/C92-2070.pdf Word-sense disambiguation using statistical models of Roget's categories trained on large corpora]." Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics-Volume 2. Association for Computational Linguistics, 1992.</ref> and [[text simplification]] for [[machine translation]] systems.<ref>Siddharthan, Advaith. "An architecture for a text simplification system." Language Engineering Conference, 2002. Proceedings. IEEE, 2002.</ref>