Sunday May 4 – 5 PM

Bradford, Hlava, McNaughton

Taxonomies CSE

Presenters - TaxonomiesMarjorie Hlava

Access Innovations

Monica BradfordAmerican Association for the Advancement of ScienceAAAS

Charlotte McNaughtonASCE

What is a Taxonomy? ANSI/ NISO Z39.19-2010

“A collection of controlled vocabulary terms organized into

a hierarchical structure.”

controlled

Missing: equivalence, homographic, and associative relationships and notes

Yes!

Structure Of Controlled Vocabularies

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Lists Synonyms Taxonomy Thesaurus Ontology

Ambiguity Ambiguity Ambiguity Specifies a KOS Synonym Synonym Directionality in Hierarchy Hierarchy Relationships relationships

INCREASING COMPLEXITY and CONTROL

Taxonomy? Thesaurus?Main Term (MT) Top Term (TT)Broader Terms (BT)Narrower Terms (NT)Related Terms (RT)

See also (SA)Non-Preferred Term (NP)

Used for (UF), See (S)Scope Note (SN)History (H)

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= subject term, heading, node, category, descriptor, class

TAXONOMY

THESAURUSOWL can specify

How Do Terms Relate?

Hierarchical relationships-- Parents and their children

Equivalence relationships

-- Aliases, synonyms

Associative relationships

-- Cousins

TAXONOMY

THESAURUS

Disambiguation

Bridge Structure

Bridge Dentistry

Bridge Game

Bridge Concept

Achieving SynonymyFind like concepts

Merge the terms

Choose a preferred form

Build term record HierarchyEquivalenceAssociative

Taxonomy

Linked DataAssert that the AIP Thesaurus term “Nonlinear optics” refers to the same conceptas the dbpedia page “Nonlinear optics” by putting links in both places.

Content Recommender

Thesaurus terms

Similar content

The more terms in common, the higher the recommendation of content as similar.

7. Content Recommender

More Articles on the same topic

Selected Article Search “thin film sputtering”

Grants available

Upcoming conferences on this topic

Authors working in this space

Journal Profile PagesEach journal can be characterized by the most frequently used indexing terms.

2014 JLAPEN (Journal of Laser Applications) 13 most frequently used indexing terms:

Powders

Manufacturing

Laser materials

Laser applications

Laser industrial applications

Laser beams

Solidification

Cladding

Laser ablation

Laser beam welding

Engineering

Nanoparticles

Materials properties

Image Indexing

Index the image by analyzing the text

associated with the image:

caption

Author Submission/Reviewer Tools

Image: Courtesy AACR and EJPress

Add a box:“SuggestNew terms”

Reports and Research Toolsfor Internal Use

Reports and Research Toolsfor Internal Use

Thesaurus Master

Machine Aided Indexer

(M.A.I.™)

DatabaseRepositor

y

SearchPresentation

Layer

Increasesaccuracy

Browse by SubjectAuto-completionBroader TermsNarrower TermsRelated Terms

Client Taxonomy

Inline Tagging

Metadata and Entity Extractor

Automatic Summarization

Search Softwar

e

Client Data

Full Text

HTML, PDF,

Data Feeds,

etc.

Client taxonomy

The Workflow

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Tag and Createmetadata

Put in data base with tags

Build Search inverted index

Create user interface

Gather source data

Taxonomy Driven Search Presentation

Navigate the full taxonomy “tree”

BROWSE

Auto-completion using the taxonomy

Guide the user

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Taxonomyview

ThesaurusTerm Record

view

Knowledge Organization Systems

Semantic network

Ontology

Thesaurus

Taxonomy

Controlled vocabulary

Synonym set/ring

Name authority file

Uncontrolled list•Unrelated Entities•Ambiguity

•Linked Entities•Contextual Specificity

•Simple•Low Value

•Complex•High value

Uncontrolled list has the Highest Cost over Time!

Thanks!

Questions after all three speakers

Marjorie M K Hlava, PresidentAccess Innovations, Inc.4725 Indian School Rd, Ste. 100Albuquerque, NM 87110+1-505-998-0800www.accessinn.comwww.dataharmony.comEmail: info@accessinn.com

About Access InnovationsAccess Innovations are experts in content creation, enrichment, and conversion services. We provide services to semantically enrich and tag raw text into highly structured data. We deliver clean, well-formed, metadata-enriched content so our clients can reuse, repurpose, store, and find their knowledge assets. We go beyond the standards to build taxonomies and other data control structures as a solid foundation for your information. Our services and software allow organizations to use and present their information to both internal and external constituents by leveraging search, presentation, and e-commerce. We change search to found!

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Suggested taxonomy descriptors

Normal text extraction

Near conceptual synonyms

Nonsensical suggestions

Small Taxonomy

Near synonym, conceptual duplicate

Refined presentation

Dependent concepts

Ontological dependencies