1. Sunday May 4 – 5 PM Bradford, Hlava, McNaughton
Taxonomies CSE
Sunday May
4 – 5 PM
Bradford, Hlava, McNaughton

2. Presenters - Taxonomies
Marjorie Hlava
Access Innovations
Monica Bradford
American Association for the Advancement of Science
AAAS
Charlotte McNaughton
ASCE

3. What is a Taxonomy? ANSI/ NISO Z39.19-2010
controlled
“A collection of controlled vocabulary terms organized into a hierarchical structure.”
Yes!
Missing:
equivalence, homographic, and associative relationships
and notes

4. Structure Of Controlled Vocabularies
Lists Synonyms Taxonomy Thesaurus Ontology
INCREASING COMPLEXITY and CONTROL
Ambiguity Ambiguity Ambiguity Specifies a KOS
Synonym Synonym Directionality in
Hierarchy Hierarchy Relationships relationships
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5. Taxonomy? Thesaurus? TAXONOMY OWL can specify THESAURUS Main Term (MT)
= subject term, heading, node,
category, descriptor, class
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)
TAXONOMY
OWL can specify
THESAURUS
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6. How Do Terms Relate? Hierarchical relationships
-- Parents and their children
Equivalence relationships
-- Aliases, synonyms
Associative relationships
-- Cousins
TAXONOMY
THESAURUS

7. Disambiguation Bridge Structure Bridge Dentistry Bridge Game Bridge
Concept

8. Achieving Synonymy Find like concepts Merge the terms
Choose a preferred form
Build term record
Hierarchy
Equivalence
Associative

9. Taxonomy

10. Linked Data
Assert that the AIP Thesaurus term “Nonlinear optics” refers to the same concept
as the dbpedia page “Nonlinear optics” by putting links in both places.

11. Content Recommender Thesaurus terms Similar content
The more terms in common, the higher the recommendation of content as similar.

12. 7. Content Recommender Grants available
Selected Article Search “thin film sputtering”
Grants available
Upcoming conferences on this topic
More Articles on the same topic
Authors working in this space

13. Journal Profile Pages
Each journal can be characterized by the most frequently used indexing terms JLAPEN (Journal of Laser Applications) 13 most frequently used indexing terms:

14. Index the image by analyzing the text associated with the image:
Image Indexing
Index the image by analyzing the text associated with the image:
caption

15. Author Submission/Reviewer Tools
Add a box:
“Suggest
New terms”
Image: Courtesy AACR and EJPress

16. Reports and Research Tools for Internal Use

18. Reports and Research Tools for Internal Use

19. The Workflow Build Search inverted index Create user interface Gather
source
data
Tag and
Create
metadata
Put in
data base
with tags
Client Data
Full Text
HTML, PDF,
Data Feeds, etc.
Automatic Summarization
Search
Presentation Layer
Increases
accuracy
Browse by Subject
Auto-completion
Broader Terms
Narrower Terms
Related Terms
Machine Aided Indexer (M.A.I.™)
Database
Repository
Search
Software
Inline Tagging
Client taxonomy
Client Taxonomy
Metadata and Entity Extractor
Thesaurus Master

20. Taxonomy Driven Search Presentation
Auto-completion using the taxonomy
NICEM, the National Information Center for Educational Media, is a database of over 640,000 audio and visual items in all subject areas that apply to learning, from preschool through professional. Access Innovations applies subject terms from the NICEM taxonomy to each bibliographic record. In addition to that backend data work, we also created a search and presentation layer for the website, which we call Search Harmony.
Here are some of the user-friendly features that are included in Search Harmony:
[Click] Users can navigate the site by browsing the full taxonomy, and see the number of records tagged with each subject
[CLICK] Auto-completion of search terms, which is a common feature of many search engines, but in this case the user is assisted in formulating a search by seeing a pick list of terms from the taxonomy, including all synonyms – even if they appear in the middle of a phrase.
[CLICK] The user is also guided to expand the topic with broader terms or related terms from the taxonomy, or narrow the search to find more precise information.
[CLICK] The resulting site has been recognized as an indispensable resource for educators.
Guide the user
Navigate the full taxonomy “tree”
BROWSE

21. Taxonomy Thesaurus view Term Record view
Special attention to Non-Preferred Term -- goldmine
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22. Knowledge Organization Systems
Linked Entities
Contextual Specificity
Complex
High value
Semantic network
Ontology
Thesaurus
Taxonomy
Controlled vocabulary
Synonym set/ring
Name authority file
Uncontrolled list
Uncontrolled list has the Highest Cost over Time!
Simple
Low Value
Unrelated Entities
Ambiguity 22

23. Thanks! Questions after all three speakers
Marjorie M K Hlava, President
Access Innovations, Inc.
4725 Indian School Rd, Ste. 100
Albuquerque, NM

25. About Access Innovations
Access 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!
Quick Facts
Founded in 1978
Headquartered in Albuquerque, NM
Privately held
Delivered more than 2000 engagements

26. Suggested taxonomy descriptors

27. Normal text extraction

28. Near conceptual synonyms

29. Nonsensical suggestions

30. Small Taxonomy
Near synonym, conceptual duplicate

31. Refined presentation

32. Dependent concepts

33. Ontological dependencies