2012 Volume 55 Issue 9 Pages 662-669
The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) owns several term dictionaries. Among them are the “JST technological term thesaurus” for use in indexing controlled vocabularies and the “Large-scale scientific and technological dictionary”, which contains synonyms and spelling variants. This article reviews the “JST thesaurus map” we developed to visualize dictionary data based on terms’ relationship for finding the most effective search word.