| Author(s) |
Christophe
Jouis, Jean-Marie Ferru
Université
PARIS III – Sorbonne Nouvelle
, 13, rue de Santeuil –
75231 Paris - France
, {Christophe.Jouis,
Jean-Marie.Ferru}@univ-paris3.fr |
| Abstract |
We
propose to demonstrate that from the point of view of the information
flow (analyze, diffusion and/or information retrieval), an
organization
cannot be described with one and only one exclusive thesaurus (or
structured terminology with a simple link such as
“synonym”).
In fact, generally, any human being organization (firm, university,
company, etc.) is understood and then, represented
like a
pyramid. The components of the pyramid are employees connected to each
other in particular by a link of subordination. A
leader (or
“CEO”, “captain”, “director”, “General”, etc.) is at the
top of this pyramid. The leader must take the great decisions. The
leader is
generally assisted by a “staff” (management team). But every
organizations is at the same time composed of different kinds
of members
(employees) having different categories of knowledges, goals and needs.
If we consider an organization, the flow of
informations
provided to an employee inside this organization must be filtered
according to his needs and only those informations.
Consequently,
flows of information are absolutely not proportional to the hierarchical
levels of the employees. For instance, the
"head"
of the organization could not make a decision if she/he was informed of
all the informations related to its own organization:
he/she would
be completely submerged! We thus deduce from it that it is necessary to
distinguish various categories of employees by
functional
properties. Then, for each category, it is necessary to specify the real
needs for information. Lastly, it becomes possible to
reconstitute
a thesaurus by category.
ITTF is an
ongoing project organizing and filtering flow of external informations
inside an organization using linguistic resources
about the
organization. Relevant informations are presented to a particular user
by the intermediary of a simplified and personalized
HTML
interfaces.
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