OBJECTIVE Identify the lexical content of a large corpus of ordinary medical records to assess the feasibility of large-scale natural language processing. METHODS A corpus of 560 megabytes of medical record text from an academic medical center was broken into individual words and compared with the words in six medical vocabularies, a common word list, and a database of patient names. Unrecogn...

Previous research suggests that children learning a variety of languages acquire similar early noun vocabularies and do so by similar and universal processes. We report here results from two studies that show differences in the early noun learning of Englishand Japanesespeaking children. Experiment 1 examined the relative numbers of animal names and object names in vocabularies of English-speak...

In the Web of Data, licenses specifying the terms of use and reuse are associated not only to datasets but also to vocabularies. However, even less support is provided for taking the licenses of vocabularies into account than for datasets, which says it all. In particular, this paper addresses the following issue: checking the compatibility among the set of licenses assigned to the vocabularies...

A computer tool has been developed for revealing sets of oligonucleotides invariant for isofunctional families of DNA (RNA) and for using these in functional identification of nucleotide sequences. The tool allows one to: build up vocabularies of invariant oligonucleotides for the families of isofunctional nucleotide sequences; assess significance of the vocabularies; identify nucleotide sequen...

This paper presents an architecture to place index references from control vocabularies into XML documents. This provides three advantages currently not present in XML: the ability to simplify the writing of complex document type definitions that refer to control vocabularies, the ability to write XML documents with better indexing, and better retrieval of XML documents.

In this study we consider wether, and to what extent, additional semantics in the form of Linked Data can help diversifying search results. We undertake this study in the domain of cultural heritage. The data consists of collection data of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam together with a number of relevant external vocabularies, which are all published as Linked Data. We apply an existing graph search...

This paper reports preliminary results of a study of the development of sibilant fricatives /s/ and /ʃ/ in young children. Results show that transcribed accuracy increased over the age range studied (28 to 39 months) and that children with larger vocabularies produced fricatives more accurately than ones with smaller vocabularies. Spectral characteristics were measured for productions transcrib...

In this survey, we argue that using structured vocabularies is capital to the success of image annotation. We analyze literature on image annotation uses and user needs, and we stress the need for automatic annotation. We briefly expose the difficulties posed to machines for this task and how it relates to controlled vocabularies. We survey contributions in the field showing how structures are ...

We develop a programming framework for systems of agents that interact with each other in a shared environment. We model the common environment as a mathematical structure and assign to each agent a part of this environment as its expertise. This expertise is given by a syntactical signature composed of a collection of relation and function symbols, which gives rise to a window on the environme...

This paper presents an approach for providing terminology Web services for controlled vocabulary terms. Services are implemented within a service oriented framework. A set of experimental services for genre vocabularies is provided through the MS Office Research pane, a built-in feature of Internet Explorer (IE) when users have loaded MS Office 2003. Web browsers, such as Mozilla Firefox and Op...