Access Innovations Completes Thesaurus Project for Mark Allen Group
Access Innovations, Inc., creator of the award-winning Data Harmony semantic enrichment software, is proud to announce the recent completion of a thesaurus project with […]
Clearing the Fog
We have all been there. It might be in the middle of a professional conversation or social gathering and someone uses a word you […]
Go Baby Go!
The Kentucky Derby may be the most widely anticipated and discussed two-minute sports event of the year. For folks outside the 30-mile radius of […]
Express Yourself
Express yourself may have been Madonna’s instructions but it also comes from our parents, grandparents, and especially our teachers. Middle school teachers, apparently, are holding […]
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 […]
Choosing Terms for a Taxonomy or Other Controlled Vocabulary
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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 Related Terms
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Which quiche? You’ll have to read to the end to find out.
As many of our readers are aware, hierarchical thesauri are distinguished from […]
To Cap or Not to Cap?
Every once in a while, the issue of capitalization in taxonomies and thesauri pops up. Some of us in taxonomy land believe that it does make a difference what capitalization (versus lower case) style you use. We just don’t necessarily agree what that style should be.
Show Me the Money
By 2025, the Winklevoss twins, more known for their legal battles with former classmate Mark Zuckerberg over Facebook, predicts a “cashless society” will dominate with the virtual currency bitcoin.