Taxonomy is a method used to ease information retrieval for an effective knowledge management system. Studies have found information technology is vital for knowledge to be successfully managed and shared. We decided therefore to survey IT taxonomy studies using literature review and classification of articles from 1989 to 2008 in order to explore how taxonomy applications have developed in thi...

Domain model enhanced search-A comparison of taxonomy, thesaurus and ontology CWI's research has a theme-oriented structure and is grouped into four clusters. Listed below are the names of the clusters and in parentheses their acronyms. Domain model enhanced search-A comparison of taxonomy, thesaurus and ontology ABSTRACT This thesis investigates the use of domain models for improving electroni...

In this paper, we present a Chinese lexical taxonomy, a hierarchically organization of Chinese lexical classes of nouns, verbs and adjectives. We first describe the structure of this taxonomy and then present the methods we used to build it. The distinctive characteristics of this lexical taxonomy are: 1) we use definition frame to describe each lexical class, as well as its members, 2) the lex...

In this paper, a taxonomy of internet music services is presented by combining an extensive literature study with an inductive evaluation of current music services on the internet a taxonomy is derived. The taxonomy has an important contribution to both development of internet music services as well as research in the domain of internet music.

Ambiguities in the taxonomy dependent assignment of pyrosequencing reads are usually resolved by mapping each read to the lowest common ancestor in a reference taxonomy of all those sequences that match the read. This conservative approach has the drawback of mapping a read to a possibly large clade that may also contain many sequences not matching the read. A more accurate taxonomic assignment...

Guided by multiple heuristics, a unified taxonomy of entities and categories is distilled from the Wikipedia category network. A comprehensive evaluation, based on the analysis of upward generalization paths, demonstrates that the taxonomy supports generalizations which are more than twice as accurate as the state of the art. The taxonomy is available at http://headstaxonomy.com.

The assessment of aggression against women is demanding primarily because assessment strategies do not share a common language to describe reliably the wide range of forms of aggression women experience. The lack of a common language impairs efforts to describe these experiences, understand causes and consequences of aggression against women, and develop effective intervention and prevention ef...

The impaired walking nursing diagnosis has been included in NANDA International classification taxonomy in 1998, and this review aims to identify the defining characteristics and related factors in elderly patients in recent literature. Integrative literature review based on the following guiding question: Are there more defining characteristics and factors related to the nursing diagnosis impa...

Sorting is still one of the most important problems in Computer Science. Work in transformational programming and automatic program synthesis provided the insight that led to Merritt’s inverted taxonomy of sorting algorithms, a high-level, top-down, conceptually simple and symmetric categorization of sorting algorithms. More recent work in logic-based program synthesis by Lau has produced a log...