Contents: Preface. 1. Thesaurus related bibliographies and general literature on thesaurus: i. Thesauri related bibliographies. ii. General literature on thesaurus. 2. Manuals/conference papers. 3. Indexing languages. 4. Natural language. 5. Vocabulary control. 6. Natural language vs. controlled vocabulary. 7. Thesaurus construction. 8. Thesaural relationships. 9. Thesaurus construction standards (for monolingual thesaurus). 10. Literature related with thesaurus construction softwares. 11. Websites listing thesaurus construction softwares. 12. Lists of thesaurus construction softwares: i. Lists of thesaurus construction softwares. ii. Standalone softwares for thesaurus construction. iii. Multi-user software designed for cooperative use. 13. Structure and description of thesaurus. 14. Actual thesauri--monolingual. 15. Multilingual thesauri: i. Construction and use of multilingual thesaurus. ii. Standards for multilingual thesaurus. iii. Softwares for multilingual thesauri. iv. Actual multilingual thesauri. v. Bilingual thesauri. 16. Switching vocabulary. 17. Thesaurus and classification. 18. Thesaurofacet and classaurus: i. Thesaurofacet. ii. Classaurus. 19. Lists of subject headings. 20. Metadata and thesaurus. 21. Uses of thesaurus. 22. Literature on online thesaurus. 23. Evaluation of thesauri. 24. Thesaurus literature available on the web. 25. Websites providing access to actual online thesauri and websites providing information about actual thesauri. 26. Websites listing thesauri. Index.
"Information explosion is one of the impacts of invention of printing technology and the emergence of democratic governments. The ever-accelerating growth of literature has put forth the need for bibliographic control.
Since 1960s information retrieval (IR) and its auxiliary aspects have been of interest of the LIS professionals. As a result a large number of documents have been published on IR and its various aspects. The sheer number (of documents) itself is an indicator of LIS professionals interest in IR.
Bibliography of literature on IR was needed to help in sustaining the interest of LIS professionals in IR for it makes available the list of relevant literature. The present bibliography will help in literature search, in knowing various aspects of IR, which are not yet paid enough attention to. The bibliography will also be useful in avoiding duplications in research of IR." (jacket)
