Abstract: | This paper describes the topical-thematic structure of the “Political Science” Database created at the Institute for Scientific
Information on Social Sciences (INION) of the RAS. The principles of conceptual processing of political science documents
are considered. The properties are uncovered of how the complex of linguistic instruments (branch information-retrieval thesaurus,
rubricator of political science, and subject headings) is developed and applied to indexing and classification of documents
and queries. |