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During the long-term period of a nuclear disaster, people living in contaminated territories need to gain knowledge in order to take protective actions. While existing representations of this knowledge are designed for experts, we propose a thesaurus of radiation safety built for the lay people. We present a methodology to extract such a thesaurus from a set of documents addressed to non-experts. Extension of the corpus and implementation of more automated processes are still required to improve the resulting thesaurus.
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This work is supported by grants from the Conseil Supérieur de la Formation et de la Recherche Stratégiques and Pays de Montbéliard Agglomération.
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Segault, A., Tajariol, F., Roxin, I. (2015). A SKOS Radiation Safety Thesaurus for People Living in Contaminated Territories. In: Bellamine Ben Saoud, N., Adam, C., Hanachi, C. (eds) Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Mediterranean Countries. ISCRAM-med 2015. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 233. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24399-3_10
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