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The activities which fall under the root conceptual term [Procedure of analysis of
the textual support] serve for identifying relevant segments in an audiovisual text,
for cutting the audiovisual text up into smaller units and for describing and
classifying these units.
14.4. Theclass ofactivities [Procedure ofanalysisofthetextualobject usingthe
ASWthesaurus]
Figure 14.5 shows an extract from the fairly complex organization of the set of
activities which make up the
procedure of controlled description*
(see Chapter 10),
i.e. the procedure which, unlike
free description*
(see Chapter 11), relies on the use
of one or more
thesauruses*
(micro-thesauruses).
Figure14.5.
TheprocedureofanalysisofthetextualobjectusingtheASWthesaurus
In the figure, we see a bipartite organization based on the notion of
micro-
thesauruses
and the distinction between
shared micro-thesauruses
, common to all
audiovisual archives which use the
ASW metalinguistic resources*
and
private
micro-thesauruses
, specific to an audiovisual archive, i.e. to the
universe of
discourse*
of a particular audiovisual archive. A micro-thesaurus is composed of:
‒
a
facet
, i.e. a
semantic trait
(or, as we prefer to term it, a
classeme
in the sense
of structural semantics [GRE 66]) and;
‒
a (hierarchical) list of
controlled expressions
(i.e. a terminology) which
constitute the values of the facet.
