The Evolution of Guidelines for Thesaurus Construction
David A. Krooks, F. Wilfrid Lancaster · Libri · 1993
This piece of research traces the evolution of guidelines and principles for the construction of information retrieval thesauri from 1959 to 1993. We conclude that the majority of the basic problems of thesaurus construction had already been identified and solved by 1967 and that Eugene Wall, more than any other individual, has profoundly influenced the entire development in this area