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A linguistic navigator for the social sciences and humanities: Purpose, structure, and application principles

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The goals, functions, and main stages of the creation of a system of navigation in linguistic tools that are used during the content processing of documents and queries in the Automated Information System on Social Sciences are considered. The structure of the linguistic navigator that was developed at the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences (INION) is described. The features of the search for descriptors and synonyms, the codes and rubric names of the classification system (Rubricator), and facet elements and subject rubrics are shown.

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Original Russian Text © L.V. Shemberko, M.B. Shnaiderman, A.I. Sliva, 2014, published in Nauchno-Technicheskaya Informatsiya, Seriya I, 2014, No. 11, pp. 26–37.

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Shemberko, L.V., Shnaiderman, M.B. & Sliva, A.I. A linguistic navigator for the social sciences and humanities: Purpose, structure, and application principles. Sci. Tech.Inf. Proc. 41, 244–253 (2014). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0147688214040078

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