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In this paper we provide a preliminary overview of a number of problems we encountered when faced with the revaluation of a large-scale mono-lingual thesaurus. The thesaurus we speak of is used to wade through the vast multimedia archive of the Flemish public radio and television broadcaster (VRT). In order to support advanced and ‘knowledgeable’ queries on the archive, it became imperative to upgrade the existing infrastructure. In this context we performed an in-depth analysis of the existing legacy situation. This lead to the identification of a number of structural problems as well as problems with respect to content. Solutions to counter some of these have already been established. To support the new search-requirements for the archive, we have migrated the existing system to an ontology-inspired infrastructure.
This work was funded by the Flemish government (Belgium).
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Deridder, D., Soetens, P. (2003). Revaluation of a Large-Scale Thesaurus for Multi-media Indexing: An Experience Report. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z. (eds) On The Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2003: OTM 2003 Workshops. OTM 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2889. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39962-9_17
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