Specialised Terminology Management Application
MINISIS Inc. is a leader in the processing, managing, and retrieving of multilingual terminology and thesauri.
STEMMA (Specialised Terminology Management Application) is a unique tool to help you create and manage a thesaurus.
STEMMA allows a user to add, change, and delete terms in the thesaurus and relate terms to one another within
a hierarchy. These transactions are logged in the record for recovery and backup and can be committed or
rolled back according to transaction time stamps as specified by the user. The application enables display
and searching in systematic, alphabetic, and hierarchical formats. Most importantly, STEMMA provides online
validation checks that ensure complete reciprocity and hierarchical integrity of the thesaurus:
- Uniqueness check: the term does not exist as another entry term in the thesaurus
- Duplicate relation check: the term does not exist in the same repeatable relation field
- Relation check: the term does not exist in other relation fields in the record
- Verify check: the relation term exists as an entry term elsewhere in the thesaurus
- Root check: the term is at top level
- Reciprocal check: the relation term exists as an entry term, the reciprocal relation field of which is the
main term of the current record (both one- and two-way reciprocation are supported)
- Multilingual check: checks that all mandatory language equivalents are entered
- Translation check: allows the copying of the language equivalents from the main term to the current relation
field
- Integrity check: extracts descriptors and/or non-descriptors from scope notes