Recently, researchers have been debating whether children exhibit a universal “noun bias” when learning a first language. The present study compares the proportions of nouns and verbs in the early vocabularies of 24 Englishand 24 Mandarin-speaking toddlers ( M age 5 20 months) and their mothers. Three different methods were used to measure the proportion of noun types, relative to verb types: c...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to provide an overview of the collaborative tagging phenomenon and explore some of the reasons for its emergence. The paper reviews the related literature and discusses some of the problems associated with, and the potential of, collaborative tagging approaches for knowledge organisation and general resource discovery. Design/methodology/approach – A defini...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to provide an overview of the collaborative tagging phenomenon and explore some of the reasons for its emergence. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reviews the related literature and discusses some of the problems associated with, and the potential of, collaborative tagging approaches for knowledge organisation and general resource discovery. A defini...

Terminologies or controlled vocabularies are important as they provide a framework within which communities can share knowledge. We describe three applications using a terminology represented in a Description Logic and delivered via a Terminology Server and suggest that such a service oriented architecture is essential to the adoption of terminologies within the component based architectures of...

Wikipedia can be utilized as a controlled vocabulary for identifying the main topics in a document, with article titles serving as index terms and redirect titles as their synonyms. Wikipedia contains over 4M such titles covering the terminology of nearly any document collection. This permits controlled indexing in the absence of manually created vocabularies. We combine state-of-the-art strate...

The Audubon Core vocabulary terms subjectPart and subjectOrientation are used to describe the depicted part of an organism its orientation in image. We criteria process for developing controlled vocabularies these two terms. take form Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) concept schemes their categorized using SKOS collections allow users select from particular sets values appropriate gr...

However, controlled vocabularies have other important roles in distributed systems: in particular in constraining content validity. A national water information system established by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (’the Bureau’) has deployed a system for ingestion of data from multiple providers. This uses a HTTP interface onto separately maintained vocabulary services as part of the qual...