%0 Journal Article
%T Enriching a thesaurus as a better question
%A Yejun Wu
%J Journal of Information Science
%@ 1741-6485
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0165551517706219
%X This article reports the method of enriching a thesaurus by differentiating the related term relationship with specific semantic relations and expanding related terms. It also tests the usefulness of an enriched thesaurus as a better question-answering tool and information retrieval aid based on usersĄŻ perceptions. A small portion of the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) thesaurus was enriched, and two enriched mini-thesauri were compiled with different levels of detail. A total of 22 participants were recruited to test the usefulness of the three mini-thesauri for facilitating question-answering and information retrieval within the ERIC Abstracts of the EBSCOHost Database and on the Web using Google. The experimental results suggest that the enriched thesauri are better question-answering tools and information retrieval aids than the original thesaurus. The findings imply that thesauri enriched with semantic relations are useful in question-answering and modern information retrieval, although the role of the traditional thesaurus in modern information retrieval has diminished
%K Education Resources Information Center
%K information retrieval
%K question-answering
%K semantic relations
%K thesaurus
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0165551517706219