The development of standardised vocabularies within nursing has been an important research activity for a number of years. Current representations generally take the form of taxonomic vocabularies. These are seen as important as they provide a structure for retrieving and analysing data from automated systems. However, there is increasing evidence to show that traditional taxonomic vocabularies...

this study aims at investigating a sexual vocabulary in qur’an, by clarriffaying ephemestic styles, adopted in “qur’an”, to refer to the taboo vocabulary, the study depends on “kashaaf” of “al zamakhshary”. the study results in the facts that sexual vocabulary, from the majority of the taboo words. these vocabularies may have close or distint meaning in relation to the taboo words. thus, the me...

Vocabularies are more and more (re)-used in the Linked Data ecosystem. However, managing the prefixes associated to their Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) is still cumbersome and namespaces are sometimes referring to different pair . In this paper, we propose to align two well-known services with the aim of managing and harmonizing vocabularies’ namespaces. We use prefix.cc that...

For the CRISs to be effective the notion of controlled vocabulary shared by a community is central. Structuring of controlled vocabularies, including taxonomies, thesauri and ontologies has been studied for many years. In this paper we shall investigate the use of one such method of defining controlled vocabularies; thesauri. We compare approaches which have been proposed for expressing such co...

Invariant image descriptors play an important role in many computer vision and pattern recognition problems such as image search and retrieval. A dominant paradigm today is that of “bags of features”, a representation of images as distributions of primitive visual elements. The main disadvantage of this approach is the loss of spatial relations between features, which often carry important info...

Controlled vocabularies of various kinds (e.g., thesauri, classification schemes) play an integral part in making Cultural Heritage collections accessible. The various institutions participating in the Dutch CATCH programme maintain and make use of a rich and diverse set of vocabularies. This makes it hard to provide a uniform point of access to all collections at once. Our SKOS-based vocabular...

Search providers in domains from medicine to news have long labelled documents with controlled vocabularies, to help users explore their collections. These vocabularies are expensive to build and use, however, and seem to be useful mostly for domain experts. This paper describes an on-going gaze-tracking study which asks whether non-experts notice controlled vocabularies when they are exposed i...