This report describes the NASA Lexical Dictionary (NLD), a machine-aided indexing system used online at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Center for AeroSpace Information (CASI). This system automatically suggests a set of candidate terms from NASA's controlled vocabulary for any designated natural language text input. The system is comprised of a text processor that is based ...

ing away from knowledge of Principle C, the research presented here serves to demonstrate that vocabulary size and efficiency of lexical access index different aspects of linguistic development. This observation is important more broadly in language acquisition research because it highlights the fact that behavior on a given task can be influenced by many different factors, both related to the ...

Measuring Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition by James Milton is an interesting book whose main concern actually focuses on vocabulary acquisition and its measurement; however, Milton also illustrates important issues that directly relate to the relationship between reading comprehension and vocabulary knowledge in English as a second/foreign language (ESL/EFL) contexts. Therefore, a review ...

The agINFRA project focuses on the production of interoperable data in agriculture, starting from the vocabularies and Knowledge Organization Systems (KOSs) used to describe and classify them. In this paper we report on our first steps in the direction of publishing agricultural Linked Open Data (LOD), focusing in particular on germplasm data and soil data, which are still widely missing from t...