It has been part of the role of medical organizations in Western nations to develop position statements on various sociopolitical issues. Both the American Psychiatric Association and the American Medical Association have established position statements related to social policy, including capital punishment. In 2001, AAPL endorsed a moratorium on capital punishment. Recent calls for AAPL to end...

The paper describes the structure and properties of a large linguistic ontology – a new kind of information retrieval thesaurus Thesaurus on Sociopolitical Life for Conceptual Indexing. The thesaurus is used in various realscale information-retrieval applications in the legal domain. At present one of the main applications of the Thesaurus is knowledge-based text categorization. Categories are ...

In the paper we describe development, means of evaluation and applications of Russian–English Sociopolitical Thesaurus specially developed as a linguistic resource for automatic text processing applications. The Sociopolitical domain is not a domain of social research but a broad domain of social relations including economic, political, military, cultural, sports and other subdomains. The knowl...

In the context of the “network society” structured on “digital communication” processes, new values and technologies induce changes in government-society relations. The aim of this study was to propose a conceptual framework of understanding the levels of sociopolitical digital interactions’ maturity (SDIM) in response to the following question: how can the sociopolitical digital interactions’ ...

The paper describes representation and use of variable and nontypical relations of concepts in the Sociopolitical thesaurus constructed specially as a tool for automatic text processing. The variable and non-typical conceptual relations are described in the simplest way by marking of relations by modifiers. The simplicity of notation facilitates representation of such relations for large number...