Most libraries use the machine-readable cataloguing (MARC) format to encode and exchange metadata about the items they make available to their patrons. Traditional library systems have not published this data on the Semantic Web. However, some agile open source library systems have begun closing this gap by publishing structured data that uses the schema.org vocabulary to describe the bibliogra...

In recent years, the linked open data (LOD) paradigm has emerged as a promising approach to structuring, publishing, and sharing data online, using Semantic Web standards. From a geospatial perspective, one of the key challenges consists of bridging the gap between the vast amount of crowdsourced, semi-structured or unstructured geoinformation and the Semantic Web. Notably, OpenStreetMap (OSM) ...

The OntoLex W3C Community Group has been working for more than a year on realizing a proposal for a standard ontology lexicon model. As the corespecification of the model is almost complete, the group started development of additional modules for specific tasks and use cases. We think that in many usage scenarios (e.g. linguistic enrichment, localization and alignment of ontologies) the discove...

Despite the fact that business process (BP) modeling has its long-lasting traditions in various areas of application, this discipline remains in the constant process of improvement and issue-solving. The possibilities of synergy among business process models and business vocabularies and rules are analyzed in this paper. We emphasize the existing gap between business process modeling and specif...

background and purpose: a 3-unit course is dedicated to general language in medical universities and the vocabulary and text structure of the courses have usually no relation to medical language. we examine whether teaching general language will be as effective as medical language as assessed through recall of general and medical vocabulary and text structure knowledge. methods: an experimental...

Robust vocabulary instruction is an important part of comprehensive English language arts (ELA) instruction. Vocabulary supports students in learning the meaning words to build a receptive that they can rely on comprehend read and hear. Many with significant cognitive disabilities (SCD) complex communication needs (CCN) struggle or understand grade-level words, concepts, texts. Explicit play ro...

The current study is an attempt to investigate the particular role learners' vocabulary knowledge plays in their reading comprehension performance. It intends to determine whether breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge are related to EFL learners' reading comprehension, and to investigate which one of these variables, that is, depth or breadth of vocabulary knowledge, makes a more important ...

Question answering over linked data has emerged in the past years as an important topic of research in order to provide natural language access to a growing body of linked open data on the Web. In this paper we focus on analyzing the lexical gap that arises as a challenge for any such question answering system. The lexical gap refers to the mismatch between the vocabulary used in a user questio...