Microsoft PowerPoint - aat_in_depth.pptx

5/4/2019

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Introduction to the AAT

revised May 2019 For educational purposes

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We are correcting General vs. Spec

ific scope notes

as we find them

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Worked somewhat in a monolingual thesaurus

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But now that the AAT is being translat

ed, the problems with this former

policy are very evident:

Difficult to place in the hierarchy:

general and specific

usage may require

different placement

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Confusion in translati

on: perhaps the target

language does not use the

same term for both meanings

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J. Paul Getty Trust, author: Patricia Harpring .For educational purposes only. Do not distribute.

AAT:

Scope Notes define multiple concepts