Methodological aspects of development of the electronic russian–english thesaurus on computational linguistics

The paper discusses methodological aspects of development of the electronic Russian–English thesaurus on computational linguistics. Rationale for the creation of the thesaurus, and the design principles are substantiated. The general structure of the thesaurus, composition of the thesaurus entries, and set of relations between the thesaurus terms are described. The procedure of choice of terms for inclusion in the thesaurus is depicted and the problems with selection of the preferred term(descriptor) from a synonyms list as well as translation equivalents are discussed. Features of implementation of online digital version of the thesaurus are considered. The paper gives a particular attention to maintenance of a logical consistency of the thesaurus terminology system and to providing a convenient access to the thesaurus content.