Using N-grams to discover taxonomy terms
Words that occur together frequently are likely to encode important concepts. Therefore, simply sorting a list of phrases according to the frequency of occurrence […]
What is JATS and Why Should I Care
Search for “jats” and you will find two very distinct concepts:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jat_people
This post doesn’t discuss the […]
In Defense of Taxonomies: In Response to the Recent Scholarly Kitchen Posts about Google Scholar, Indexing, and Content Findability
Several interesting points were raised over the course of the two posts — and, notably, in the resulting comments featuring Anurag Acharya — by […]
Difficulties in the Classification of Musical Genres
In the world of classification, there may be no subject more hotly debated by people not in the taxonomy world as music genres. As […]
Access Innovations and Access Integrity Complete ICD-10 Readiness Tool
Access Innovations, Inc. is pleased to announce the delivery of a comprehensive ICD-10 readiness tool for their Access Integrity division.
Access Integrity was formed in […]
Classifying Video Games to Best Inform Their Audience
Trying to decide what video games to buy and play can be tricky; game classification is one way to better aid consumers in making […]
Choosing Terms for a Taxonomy or Other Controlled Vocabulary
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Bob Kasenchak to present as Part of FEDLINK’s Building Web Taxonomies Program
Bob Kasenchak, Director of Business Development for Access Innovations, Inc., will be presenting at the Building Web Taxonomies program, sponsored by the Federal Library […]
Choosing Non-Preferred (and Preferred) Terms for a Thesaurus
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Synonyms and other non-preferred terms are largely what make a taxonomy (or other controlled vocabulary) a […]
Choosing Broader and Narrower Terms
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As most readers of this blog know, taxonomies are controlled vocabularies in which the terms are arranged […]