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1. Thesaurus Construction and Use

   A Practical Manual, 4th Edition

   By Jean Aitchison, David Bawden, Alan Gilchrist

   A practical guide to the construction of thesauri for use in information retrieval, written by leading experts in the field. Includes: planning and design; vocabulary control; specificity and compound terms; structure and relationships; auxiliary retrieval devices; multilingual thesauri; AAT...

   Published November 30th 2000 by Routledge
2. Lightness, Brightness and Transparency

   Edited by Alan L. Gilchrist

   This volume deals with the visual perception of lightness, brightness, and transparency of surfaces, both under minimal laboratory conditions and in complex images typical of everyday life. Each chapter analyzes the challenging problem of how a pattern of light intensities on the retina is...

   Published August 31st 1994 by Psychology Press