relatedtermit
Relatedtermit is a term used in information science to describe a curated network or dataset that catalogs terms related to a given concept and documents the semantic relationships among them. In this sense, it functions similarly to a semantic lexicon or knowledge graph, but is usually scoped to a particular domain or project. The term is informal and not standardized across communities, with variations in how it is defined and implemented.
The word relatedtermit appears in informal data science discussions, reflecting its components: related and term. There
Structure and relationships within a relatedtermit typically take the form of a graph or graph-like dataset.
Applications of relatedtermit include aiding query expansion in search interfaces, improving disambiguation in natural language processing,
Example applications would center on a domain such as biology, where a relatedtermit around “photosynthesis” might
See also: semantic networks, knowledge graph, ontology, taxonomy, lexical database, synonyms, hypernyms.