The representation and means of compilation,maintenance and functional orientation of the new Chinese Thesaurus in web environment have changed profoundly and its means of construction also needs to be innovated along with the progress of the times.As a new approach to the construction of Chinese Thesaurus,the three-level linkage mechanism is proposed,which includes the fundamental lexicon,category system and concept relationship network.Based on uniform metadata,the fundamental lexicon provides abundant and rich materials.The category system incorporates a framework for each word and the relationships among concepts are built according to selected concepts and their properties.
