Toward Domain-Specific Russian-Tatar Thesaurus Construction

© 2017 Association for Computing Machinery. The paper discusses the main principles and practical aspects of implementing a new bilingual lexical resource - the Russian-Tatar thesaurus on socio-political and IT issues. This thesaurus is developed on the basis of the Russian RuThes thesaurus format which is built as a hierarchy of concepts viewed as units of thought, with each concept linked to a set of language expressions that refer to it in texts (text entries). The paper discusses general methodology of translating concept names and their text entries, as well as ways of reflecting the specificity of the Tatar lexical-semantic system.