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Controlleddescription(Procedureof-)
1) Unlike the
procedure of free description*
, controlled description is a
procedure which relies exclusively on a
thesaurus*
of predefined terms (or
“descriptors”) to denote the
domain of knowledge*
that is addressed in a video, an
audiovisual text.
2) The procedure of controlled description is based on several activities of
description (each activity being defined in the
hierarchical meta-lexicon of
conceptual terms*
of semiotic analysis - a meta-lexicon which constitutes one of
the main
ASW metalinguistic resources*
required for elaborating
models of
description*
). In this procedure, the only compulsory activity is to select at least
one predefined term in the list of such terms in order to identify and possibly
classify, the object of the description. Like any other activity of description, this is
carried out by way of interactive forms available to the analyst in the ASW
DescriptionWorkshop*
.
Freedescription(Procedureof-)
1) The procedure of free description is one of the most important procedures of
description and along with the
controlled description*
(by way of a
thesaurus*
) it
constitutes the most central procedure in the
ASW-HSSproject*
.
2) “Free description” means that the analyst provides the appropriate value so
that a
conceptual term*
can adequately represent a thematized domain of
knowledge in the form of a
topic*
in an audiovisual corpus. In
controlled
description*
, these values are predefined in the form of terms or descriptors making
up a
thesaurus*
.
3) The procedure of free description is based on several activities of description
(each activity being defined in the
hierarchical meta-lexiconof conceptual terms*
of semiotic analysis - a meta-lexicon which constitutes one of the
ASW
metalinguistic resources*
required for elaborating
models of description*
). In this
procedure, the only compulsory activity is to enter a minimal (verbal) expression in
order to appropriately designate/denominate the domain of knowledge which is dealt
with in a video, an audiovisual text. Like any other activity of description, this is
carried out by way of interactive forms available to the analyst in the ASW
DescriptionWorkshop*
.
Descriptionofdiscourseproduction(Taskof-)
1) The description of the discourse production is part of
thematic description
*.
In particular, it is concerned with the discursive framing of a
topic*
, i.e. with the
