Synonym expansion for Virtual Tribunals-specific entities

[anarchivist]

One of the stakeholders asked in the 2/20 demo for the feasibility about providing "cross-references" for certain terms that might appear in queries, for example:

• FALINTIL = Forças Armadas de Libertação Nacional De Timor Leste = Armed Forces for the Liberation of East Timor
• UNTAET = United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor

My understanding is that this would be desirable potentially for both full-text discovery searching and content search. Work on this ticket should address the feasibility of this work. I recognize the potential complexity given the issue of introducing synonyms for an index shared with documents other than those for the VT East Timor materials.

[anarchivist]

Needs more analysis.

[anarchivist]

The goal is to associate abbreviations, alternate scripts/languages, etc. with multiple terms. Examples:

• ICTY may have names (or terms) in both Latin script or Cyrillic script (or English and Serbo-Croatian)
• Acronyms are a major issue in particular
• Ideally we could also do this for misspellings as well
• This also ties into identification of concepts: e.g. United States of America is not (just) a 4-word phrase, it's a concept

[anarchivist]

We'll keep this open, but this is out of scope for the current workcycle.

[laurensorensen]

Not a current priority, keep in the backlog.