Thesaurus Construction

Large-Scale Controlled Vocabulary Indexing for Named Entities
Paper discussing the implementation of a named entity thesaurus by Lexis-Nexis. [PDF]
http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/A/A00/A00-1038.pdf

Thesaurus Principles and Practice
Discusses the basics of thesaurus construction and management. From Willpower Information Management Consultants.
http://www.willpower.demon.co.uk/thesprin.htm

Zthes: a Z39.50 Profile for Thesaurus Navigation
Describes an abstract model for representing and searching thesauri, specifying how the model may be implemented. Uses of Z39.50 protocol and XML DTD for thesauri are described.
http://zthes.z3950.org/