Teaching RSMSSB Librarian Grade-III 2024 Mock Test Library Science Knowledge Organization & Information Processing Indexing & Abstracting Techniques
The journey of the thesaurus from the linguistic domain to information retrieval is evident from the following timeline. Choose the Correct development with its corresponding year.
(A). 1736: The term ‘thesaurus’ first appeared in OED. It came from the Greek word ‘thesauros’ which means ‘Treasury or storehouse of knowledge’
(B). 1852: Appeared Peter Mark Roget’s Thesaurus. It was a linguistic thesaurus showing the word(s) by which the given idea most fitly and aptly expressed, i.e. Classification of ideas.
(C).1957: Dorking Conference. Miss Helen Brownson first brought the idea of ‘thesaurus’ in terms if IR through a paper presented there.
(D).1969: HP Luhn gave the idea of the application of thesaurus in IR.
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A, B and C
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B, C and D
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A, C and D
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A, B and D
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