This paper presents our first participation in the OAEI 2007 campaign. It describes an approach to align taxonomies which relies on terminological and structural techniques applied sequentially. We performed our method with various taxonomies using our prototype, TaxoMap. Previous experimental results were encouraging and demonstrate the relevance of this alignment approach. In this paper, we e...

Many practical information extraction systems use simple taxonomies for mapping extracted strings to client-specific concept codes. In such taxonomies, concepts are defined as groups of semantically similar words and phrases. For the mapping to be accurate, a new client-specific taxonomy – usually nothing more than a set of concept codes, each with a single description – needs to be enriched wi...

As an open standard for electronic communication of business and financial data, XBRL has the potential of improving the efficiency of the business data supply chain. A number of jurisdictions have developed different XBRL taxonomies as their data standards. Semantic heterogeneity exists in these taxonomies, the corresponding instances, and the internal systems that store the original data. Con...

BACKGROUND Several authors have suggested that the traditional surgical morbidity and mortality meeting be developed as a tool to identify surgical errors and turn them into learning opportunities for staff. We report our experience with these meetings. METHODS A structured template was developed for each morbidity and mortality meeting. We used a grid to analyse mortality and classify the de...

Abstract Using bio-inspiration allows engineers to use the knowledge implicitly built up by natural evolution. Current tools for providing with yield many biological working principles. Starting from Linnaean taxonomy, which can be seen as a design revision history, this work proposes metrics principle based on observations of that in different organisms. A first metric measures reinforcement v...

Taxonomy is a classification effort for establishment of learning/teaching operational objectives. There are some famous taxonomies, Bloom’s being the most quoted. In spite of the fact that some researchers have tried to explain the position of elearning in already known taxonomies, this subject was not too much in the general attention. In the paper the authors intend to go deeply and to analy...

This paper reports our experience in applying an empirical userexperience testing method to improve a computer game. We sought to understand the differences in practice between usability and playability, and correspondingly to assess the usefulness of different approaches to taxonomies for playability. Our experience suggests that the evaluation technique for playability can be the same as for ...

The design and construction of domain specific ontologies and taxonomies requires allocation of huge resources in terms of cost and time. These efforts are human intensive and we need to explore ways of minimizing human involvement and other resources. In the biomedical domain, we seek to leverage resources such as the UMLS Metathesaurus and NLP-based applications such as MetaMap in conjunction...