“…In recent years, there has been extensive research on implementing thesauri in different types of digital information systems (Alonso Gaona García et al , 2014; Dalmau et al , 2005; Feki et al , 2014; Hienert et al , 2011; Lüke et al , 2012; Shiri et al , 2013). A search of the literature revealed that the majority of researchers deployed a thesaurus in real digital information systems (Alonso Gaona García et al , 2014; Dalmau et al , 2005; Feki et al , 2014; Hienert et al , 2011; Lüke et al , 2012; Shiri et al , 2013); some reported its implementation in a pilot study or in a prototype/model digital information system (Alani et al , 2000; Blocks et al , 2006; Shiri et al , 2004), and a few proposed models for its deployment in digital information systems (Maso-Maresma and Sebastia-Salat, 2013; Nakashima et al , 2003; Petrič et al , 2011). Thesauri have been used in digital information systems mainly for three purposes: indexing, searching and browsing.…”