Attila Piros is a PhD candidate at the Doctoral School of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Debrecen, Hungary. He holds a master's degree in teaching mathematics and library and information sciences from the University of Debrecen. His doctoral research deals with analysis of the UDC notations and their utilisation in computerized information retrieval. He has authored a number of research papers and has reported on his research at conferences, including the International UDC Seminar 2015. Attila has been working as a software developer and currently works on software solutions in market research.Piros, Attila. 2017. "The Thought Behind the Symbol: About the Automatic Interpretation and Representation of UDC Numbers." Knowledge Organization 44 (6): 416-424. 31 references.Abstract: Analytico-synthetic and faceted classifications, such as Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) provide facilities to express pre-coordinated subject statements using syntactic relations. In this case, the relevance, in the process of UDC-based information retrieval, can be determined by extracting the meaning of the classmarks as precisely as is possible. The central question here is how the identification mentioned above can be supported by automatic means and an analysis of the structure of complex classmarks appears to be an obvious requirement. Many bibliographic sources contain complex UDC classmarks which are stored as simple text strings and on which it is very difficult to perform any meaningful information discovery. The paper presents results from a phase of ongoing research focused on developing a new platform-independent, machine-processable data format capable of representing the whole syntactic structure of the composite UDC numbers to support their further automatic processing. An algorithm that can produce the representation of the numbers in such a format directly from their designations has also been developed and implemented. The research also includes implementing conversion methods to provide outputs that can be employed by other software directly and, as a service, make them available for other software. The paper provides an overview of the solutions developed and implemented since 2015 and outlines future research plans.
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