Current Status of Russian Electronic Thesauri: Quality, Completeness and Availability

Yu. A. Kiselev, Junior Research Fellow, e-mail: yuri.kiselev@urfu.ru, S. V. Porshnev, Head of Department, e-mail: sergey_porshnev@mail.ru, M. Yu. Muhkin, Professor, e-mail: mfly@sky.ru, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin, Ekaterinburg

The article discusses the problems existing in Russian electronic thesauri. The characteristic features of the most famous of them are studied. We analysed different aspects of electronic thesauri such as the quality, completeness, possibility of free use. Conclusions about the quality of thesauri are made based on the analysis of the size and composition of word lists and recall of synonymy relationships. Analysis of selected lexicographical resources and their comparison with the most famous analogue for English language discovered the need for designing methods that can allow at least partially automate the creation of Russian electronic thesaurus.

Keywords: thesaurus, wordnet, lexical resource, Russian language

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