Benildes Coura Moreira dos Santos Maculan

Relacionamentos em tesauros: o valor semântico dos verbos

The relationships that form the conceptual structure of thesauri can be more readily understood to humans and machines when explicitly represented. In general, this representation is realized through the use of verbs or verb phrases. For this reason, Linguistics provided important theoretical contributions. The approach discussed here was developed by Borba (1996), which based his study on the Grammar of Valence and Grammar of Cases theories and used in the representation of relationships in knowledge organization systems (KOSs) of the thesaurus type. This approach focuses on the verb grammar class and its different thematic roles in a sentence. The results showed that the existing relationships in a thesaurus cannot be separated from the domain analyzed as well as the verb needs to be in context to be understood. Both meanings of the relationship and the verb result from a localized social construction.

Análise de assunto de acórdãos jurisprudenciais

Esta pesquisa contextualiza o processo da analise de assunto no âmbito dos acordaos jurisprudenciais, tendo em vista a relevância desse tipo documental no contexto juridico como mecanismo de defesa de direitos e de teses juridicas. Conceitua-se a fonte de informacao jurisprudencial, apresentando suas caracteristicas, funcoes e estrutura. Sao tambem apresentados os requisitos essenciais das sentencas, de acordo com o Novo Codigo de Processo Civil, de 2015. Os referenciais teoricos da indexacao, em especial, da etapa da analise de assunto, sao explorados com foco na aplicacao da metodologia da analise conceitual de acordaos proposta por Guimaraes (1994), adaptada ao contexto dos tribunais de contas.

Ranganathan and the faceted classification theory

The present study contextualizes Ranganathan’s main theoretical contributions to the classification theory and addresses the Five Laws of Library Science. The major milestones in philosophical and bibliographic classifications are presented to show that the classification system has evolved from purely philosophical schemes, which were focused on the systematization of knowledge, into modern bibliographic classification systems. Facet analysis is considered a contribution to the classification process since it allows the use of an approach that encompasses different points of view of the same subject, as opposed to the enumerative systems. This article also discusses Ranganathan’s five fundamental categories, known as Personality, Matter, Energy, Space and Time, and points out to criticism of this form of categorization in the literature. The Spiral of Scientific Method and the Spiral Model of Development of subjects are presented; the latter is the meta-model of the former. The Colon Classification, which was first published in 1933, was also discussed. Finally, the applicability of the faceted classification in today’s world was addressed

Buscando uma definição para o conceito de “conceito”

Apresenta discussoes que envolvem o entendimento do conceito nas areas da Linguistica, Terminologia, Biblioteconomia e Ciencia da Informacao. As analises e reflexoes oferecem insumos para o campo de construcao de tesauros conceituais, uma vez que nesses instrumentos os conceitos sao elementos nucleares e estao inter-relacionados em sua estrutura, estabelecendo relacoes semânticas entre si (de equivalencia, hierarquicas e associativas). As ponderacoes sobre a significacao do conceito resultaram em uma nova proposta, desenvolvida por Maculan (2015), para o conceito de “conceito”, que teve por base uma relacao triadica, pautada no Triângulo Semântico de Ogden e Richards e no Triângulo do Conceito de Dahlberg.