Arcane Linguist

Chapter 199 Thesaurus, Roland's Wisdom Inspiration
Seeing that everyone was looking forward to it, and they all looked like they were willing to hear more about it, Roland didn't hold back and started to explain.

The "Classification of Chinese Libraries" in his mouth is a comprehensive classification commonly used by libraries and intelligence agencies in my country, and it is mainly used for the classification of books in large libraries.

As for the four classifications of "classics, history, sons and collections", they are the product of traditional culture.

Our country learns from the Western book classification method and classifies books according to the modern subject system. However, because many ancient books are difficult to be included in the classification system of the Chinese Library Classification System, this four-part classification method is also used in the ancient books. (Note: This paragraph refers to Baidu Encyclopedia)

Although the Reiner Kingdom is a low-magic world, their ancestors were once rich.

At least, there are many high-level mages and high-level warriors in the Black Dragon Dynasty, Tinyara and other periods that have credible records.

It's just that in modern times, it lags behind the universe.

In a sense, there are similarities in historical development, and Roland just carried this set over, trying to do as the Romans do.

It is absolutely not advisable to apply it mechanically, but learning from its framework and following this set of structured thinking can also be effective.

Roland said to the crowd: "The Palace of Wisdom has thousands of portals, and there are so many ancient books, it is rare for ordinary people to enter through the doors.

If you want to quickly and accurately travel through ancient and modern times and find what you want, it will not work without an effective classification and retrieval method.

Just such a proposition can develop a professional discipline.

I intend to set such a framework for "Reiner Canon".

Department of Sutras: spells, which also contain arcane spells, divine spells, and other extraordinary systems;
Department of History: history, historical materials;

Subparts: works of various famous authors, notes of magicians;

Collection Department: Poetry and Fu, Variety Arts, Literature...

Under the four parts, there are various categories and genera, which need to be divided according to the actual situation.

But in general, they are all committed to exhausting the intangible cultural heritage of this world. "

Then it is more specific, with dozens of sub-categories, and the context of certain knowledge fields.

This includes the major schools of magic and power systems, all kinds of things that combine the ordinary and the extraordinary.

From Roland's description, everyone saw a way to combine this cultural project and regain the wealth of civilization, and they couldn't help but look forward to it.

Because this is the hope of the rise and promotion of the Kingdom of Lena.

People of insight support.

Comprador class support.

Lords from all walks of life and feudal nobles also support it!

"After sorting it out like this, it really becomes much clearer."

Princess Rosa was also amazed, admiring Roland's broad vision.

After popularizing science, Roland briefly talked about the parts related to linguistics.

Linguistics is a discipline that studies the nature, origin and application of language, and it is also very easy to exist across disciplines.

It is easy for many people to accept that mathematics is the king of science, and physics and chemistry are the concepts that control Dharma.

But in the field of liberal arts, there is still no conclusion as to whether the status of literature, history and philosophy is higher or lower.

Some people may think that philosophy or history is the king of liberal arts, but Roland, who majored in linguistics, believes that Chinese (note: see the explanation at the bottom) is the natural king of liberal arts!
The application of linguistics is very extensive. For example, the document classification and retrieval methods needed by the Reiner Kingdom seem to have nothing to do with linguistics, and are more like the terms of information and philology.

Or, to compose such a grand canon, what is more needed are talents who are proficient in history and various scriptures, and understand the magical power of the Kingdom of Leiner.

But in fact, semantic analysis and research on key words are its real ontology!

This is determined by the fundamental status of language and writing.

All meanings can only be revealed when they come out of my mouth and into your ears, or through words.

In a sense, language and writing are not mediums...

It is the ontology of information or knowledge!

In the sudden realization of everyone, Roland concluded: "Now everyone understands why we use the Siris script to do this project, right?"

Arkham XIV suddenly realized: "What we need now is this knowledge!"

Other noble lords and scholars also said: "Now there is not such an elf archmage who is knowledgeable enough and can exert enough influence on the Reiner world to come to this world to lead such a project..."

"The elves are not enough to imbue their own knowledge into the Reiner world, nor will they help us reshape the Reiner civilization and tap the wealth of knowledge!"

"Not bad, but I want to, and I can!"

Roland said.

"What I will bring to you is not the words of Siris, but my knowledge and wealth!"

"I see!"

Gnobion was silent for a while, and sighed helplessly.

Many people of insight in the Reiner civilization could not help but sigh.

If Reiner World itself has enough information and knowledge, or if they have a unified language and writing, they can also use their own language and writing to integrate these wealth.

But they don't!
What's the matter?

Therefore, it is inevitable to cut off the past and completely transform it.

They have no choice.

The essence of this matter is actually to make choices among the elves, Atrein and other camps and magic systems.

Choose and choose, but it still has to be implemented on the person.

Among the mages sent here by Alterain, which one is the most reliable and trustworthy?

It's him, it's him, it's him!
"Since this is the case, there is nothing to question the choice in this aspect. However, Mr. Roland, what do you mean by the semantic analysis and keyword research you just mentioned?"

After Gnobion recovered from his previous emotions, he asked Roland another question.

"It's not modest to say that I have a little understanding of the Arterine culture, but I have never heard of these concepts."

When Princess Rosa heard this, her beautiful eyes flickered.

She felt the same way.

Everyone also looked at Roland with a bit of desire for knowledge, hoping to have a deeper understanding of these things.

Roland smiled secretly.

These are the knowledge from the previous life of Blue Star. There may be similar sayings in this world, but they have not been summed up. Of course you don’t know.

In the anticipation of everyone, he continued to change the term of magic and explained it.

Among the document content organization management and document retrieval and classification methods, there are title method, meta-lexical method, thesaurus method and other methods, and the software applied on the computer maintains the practical application of folder naming, tags, keywords and so on.

The starting point Chinese website that Roland loved to watch before traveling, also has a similar search method.

Just like through channel classification, genre, style, book title, pen name, introduction, and even chapter names, a reader can quickly identify the theme of the novel, and even guess the general content...

Scholars who compile the canon can also summarize these key points through their own reading comprehension.

Then, the classifications of fantasy, city, fairy tale, etc. are also artificially summarized, and further divisions are keywords such as xx stream.

These seemingly simple things, but in fact not simple at all, are the applications of linguistics.

For a novel platform, "push suitable books to target readers" is actually the most difficult problem.

There is a huge stock in the library, thousands of fine novels, countless non-fine novels, and it is impossible to read all of them in a lifetime.

How can readers find what they want to read?

Zooming in to the library of Lehner World through the ages, how do you know which books are important, which books are not important, which ones contain the wealth of spiritual civilization, and which ones are worthless?
Is it random?

It is inevitable to organize thousands of experts and scholars to spend time and effort to select and edit.

However, after the editing is successful, it is also a large tome, and it is also impossible to read all of them before knowing which ones are valuable to you.

Perhaps for Quan Reiner, every book in "The Canon" is valuable, but for individuals, it is almost impossible to read them all.

If you don't understand these things clearly, there will be problems in the inheritance and application of knowledge, and you can't read it at all!

In addition to checking for gaps and making up for omissions, protecting and restoring broken and scattered ancient books, the revision of the classics must also take care of solving this problem.

Therefore, what he talked about before was the classification method during compilation, and now it is the retrieval method after compilation.

"A metaword is a literally indivisible unit of phrase, for example, 'magic', which is a metaword.

And 'protection' is also a metaword, through 'protection' + 'magic', we can combine the category of 'protection magic', 'confusion control', 'transformation', 'prophecy' is the same...

But there are some problems in the construction of such phrases, such as 'protective magic', 'protective magic', 'defensive magic', etc...

The collocation of different metawords is too flexible and free, which is very easy to produce ambiguity, confuse concepts, and it is not easy to point to the desired thing when some contain specific meanings.

I suggest that instead of such an indexing approach, a thesaurus should be adopted. "

Descriptors were gradually developed in the 20s to adapt to the application of electronic computers in library and information work.It is the product of the synthesis and development of retrieval methods and principles such as taxonomy, title method, metaword method and keyword method. (Note: This paragraph directly quotes from Baidu Encyclopedia)

This is the benefit of experience and insight. Roland is a traveler, and he directly leads everyone to jump over the old pit and reach the goal in one step.

"The so-called descriptors are index words with definitions...and will be the focus of our next work.

We must extract the keywords that can carry and explain the Leiner culture from the Saili text, and compile them to form the thesaurus (keyword index) of the "Leiner Canon", and then sort out the development and change of the entire Leiner civilization!

I plan to create a new kind of magic called "indexing", which is used to form a knowledge map of books and materials to facilitate knowledge management.

This is a knowledge management system that links the library with itself. From now on, low-level mages can rely on the index to search and form a carefully selected 'skill tree'! "

At this time, Roland threw out several new concepts.

Knowledge graph, knowledge management, skill tree!

Everyone couldn't help showing surprise and discussing again and again.

"It's unbelievable. I didn't expect that just classification and retrieval would contain so much knowledge."

"It's no wonder that there are only a few hundred or thousands of books in my family. I feel that the study is chaotic. I often read books, but I also jump around in various fields. I don't connect the knowledge I have learned to form knowledge."

"It turns out that I haven't even figured out the thread of knowledge, and I have read the book astray!"

"In the past, there was always a saying called 'wandering in the ocean of knowledge', but in fact, the ocean of knowledge can't benefit people, it can only drown people!"

"Navigation requires navigation, and such a map is indeed what we need."

Gnobion also exclaimed: "In this field of Atrein, there are fairies like 'Book Spirit' or 'Ta Ling', or they can be forcibly remembered with the extraordinary memory of a high-level mage.

I was worried about whether this system could be introduced into the Reiner world, but I didn't expect that Mr. Roland is a genius, and there is another way to solve it!
Moreover, compared to the traditional way of Atrein, this set is more suitable for the low-magic world, and it is also more suitable for ordinary people! "

As the saying goes, you have magic, I have science.

Combining the two, Roland showed signs of mastering them and came up with a brand new solution.

Suddenly, Arkham XIV applauded.

"Everyone, let us applaud Mr. Roland's hard work!"

Suddenly, thunderous applause!

Princess Rosa and Silaire also clapped their hands with smiles on their faces, secretly amazed.

"I don't think this spell needs to be called "Indexing". It's too uncommon, so let's choose a good name. "

After the applause subsided, Gnobion, who had asked the question before, suggested.

As a linguist, although I don't want to fall into the predicament of "thinking about breaking my name for a long time", it seems natural to give my invention a name that is resounding and easy to remember.

Roland nodded, and really remembered.

But he didn't have any ideas for a while, so he simply asked the old man: "Old man, do you have any good ideas?"

For some reason, he could tell from the other party's conversation and temperament that the other party was not ordinary.

When facing themselves, the comprador class and intellectuals of the Reiner Kingdom are more or less servile.

The nationalists, on the other hand, are more or less deliberately alienated.

Neither humble nor overbearing, this description seems very ordinary, but in fact, it is really not something ordinary people can do.

This made him involuntarily ask for the other party's opinion.

"In my opinion, it should be called "Roland's Wisdom Enlightenment". "

The other party gave a specification that is very consistent with the naming of Atrein spells.

"What a name!" Arkham XIV applauded again.

Others followed suit and applauded.

"Forget it, whatever you want."

Roland sighed with a smile, and then struck while the iron was hot, announcing another matter.

"I'm going to hold a Seris language class here at the Governor's Mansion. Members of the editorial team will be selected from this class. I hope everyone will sign up enthusiastically!"

The world of Reiner already has a certain basis for teaching Seres, and these elites have more or less contact with it.

Coupled with spell blessings such as "Language Proficiency", it should be able to meet the requirements of teamwork.

　Due to the abundance of ancient documents in China, the characters are relatively special, and the language is relatively developed. Language in a broad sense should also include linguistics, which is the general term for linguistics and philology. However, since linguistics is a large category of international academic disciplines, philology is subordinate to linguistics and has become a branch of linguistics.

　　What I'm talking about here is actually language in a broad sense.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)