Several different controlled vocabularies have been developed and used by the astronomical community, each designed to serve a specific need and a specific group. The Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) attempts to provide a highly structured controlled vocabulary that will be relevant and useful across the entire discipline, regardless of content or platform. As two major use cases for the UAT i...

This research examines how teens learn L2 vocabulary when affected by different types of oral corrective feedback during a controlled classroom interaction. The study employed post-test design. Pre-Intermediate teens ESL learners (N 30) in an institute were categorized into three groups: prompts, recasts, and control. In the treatment stage, a four step vocabulary activity was provided to promp...

This paper presents an approach for providing terminology Web services for controlled vocabulary terms. Services are implemented within a service oriented framework. A set of experimental services for genre vocabularies is provided through the MS Office Research pane, a built-in feature of Internet Explorer (IE) when users have loaded MS Office 2003. Web browsers, such as Mozilla Firefox and Op...

The Computational Environment ontology design pattern models the environment in which a computational analysis was conducted down to the hardware level. The pattern is intended to support comparison and reproducibility of computational analyses. Due to the concrete nature of the pattern, it makes use of several controlled vocabularies, which are kept current through an automated script that lev...

The paper reports about results on the GESIS-IZ project “Competence Center Modeling and Treatment of Semantic Heterogeneity” (KoMoHe). KoMoHe supervised a terminology mapping effort, in which ‘cross-concordances’ between major controlled vocabularies were organized, created and managed. In this paper we describe the establishment and implementation of crossconcordances for search in a digital l...

Introduction This communication presents the problem statement, the methodology and the preliminary results of a research project aiming to compare two different approaches for indexing images, namely: traditional image indexing with the use of controlled vocabularies, or free image indexing using uncontrolled vocabulary. The experiment intends to measure their respective performance for image ...