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This paper presents a significant advancement in information security risk assessment by introducing a flexible and comprehensive model. The research integrates established standards, expert knowledge, machine learning, and ontological modeling to create a multifaceted approach for understanding and managing information security risks. The combination of standards and expert insights forms a robust foundation, ensuring a holistic grasp of the intricate risk landscape. The use of cluster analysis, specifically applying k-means on information security standards, expands the data-driven approach, uncovering patterns not discernible through traditional methods. The integration of machine learning algorithms in the creation of information security risk dendrogram demonstrates effective computational techniques for enhanced risk discovery. The introduction of a heat map as a visualization tool adds innovation, facilitating an intuitive understanding of risk interconnections and prioritization for decision makers. Additionally, a thesaurus optimizes risk descriptions, ensuring comprehensiveness and relevance despite evolving terminologies in the dynamic field of information security. The development of an ontological model for structured risk classification is a significant stride forward, offering an effective means of categorizing information security risks based on ontological relationships. These collective innovations enhance understanding and management of information security risks, paving the way for more effective approaches in the ever-evolving technological landscape. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To improve data usage in an interdisciplinary context, a clear understanding of the variables being measured is required for both humans and machines. In this paper, the I-ADOPT framework, which decomposes variable names into atomic elements, was tested within the context of continental surfaces and critical zone science, characterized by a large number and variety of observed environmental variables. We showed that the I-ADOPT framework can be used effectively to describe environmental variables with precision and that it was flexible enough to be used in the critical zone science context. Variable names can be documented in detail while allowing alignment with other ontologies or thesauri. We have identified difficulties in modeling complex variables, such as those monitoring fluxes between different environmental compartments and for variables monitoring ratios of physical quantities. We also showed that, for some variables, different decompositions were possible, which could make alignments with other ontologies and thesauri more difficult. The precision of variable names proved inadequate for data discovery services and a non-standard label (SimplifiedLabel) had to be defined for this purpose. In the context of open science and interdisciplinary research, the I-ADOPT framework has the potential to improve the interoperability of information systems and the use of data from various sources and disciplines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides a comprehensive analysis of the basic concepts and terms used in the field of psychological diagnostics. The scientific approaches to the formation of terms and conceptual apparatus by which this branch of psychological science describes its subject of study are considered. It is emphasised that the development of science is determined primarily by the formation of terminology, that is, its language as a system of general and specific concepts that are reflected in certain terms and signs. It is stated that the language of psychodiagnostics is a complex, multilevel, integral system, the elements of which are categories, concepts, terms, symbols. It is shown that in the course of the development of psychology, the conceptual apparatus is continuously being improved, definitions are being clarified, and the terminological vocabulary is being enriched. The current state of development of psychodiagnostics, the formation of promising theories of assessment and measurement of individual characteristics have necessitated the clarification of its terminological apparatus, a significant number of concepts, definitions, which are often contradictory, through the use of various approaches and terminological elements. It is emphasised that the conceptual and terminological apparatus of psychodiagnostics should be developed on the basis of modern realities, abandoning outdated approaches to the definition of certain concepts, and that work towards clarifying and unifying terms requires special care and validity. With a view to improving the terminology, the author provides clarifications of some common definitions. Thus, it is proposed to distinguish between the concepts of “qualities” and “traits”, since “quality” corresponds to the Kettellian term “superficial” or “primary” trait and the Allportian term “secondary” or “secondary” disposition, and the concept of “trait” is more generalised, it summarises the existence of a significant number of qualities. It is proposed to understand individual (individual psychological) properties as generalised characteristics of temperament, character, abilities, orientation, i.e. stable mental phenomena which influence human activity, characterise a personality from the psychological and social aspects and are implemented in society. In addition, it is proposed to clearly distinguish between the concepts of “qualities”, “traits”, “features”, to introduce the terms “individual and personal properties and traits”, and to differentiate psychodiagnostic tools for the study of constitutional, individual and personal traits.

The article explores the significance of the Bible and the Quran as “eternal books” or “books of humanity” in the life and works of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Along with the exceptional role of the Bible, the importance of the “heavenly book” of Muslims for the writer is also shown. From a typological point of view, these books combine the context of “eternity” and “all-humanity,” as well as graphic and lexical (synonymous and periphrastic) features of their categorical functioning both in Dostoevsky’s works and in the studies devoted to them. In this regard, the analogy between the biblical books and the “great Pentateuch” of the novelist is emphasized, in particular, the similarity of their meta-structures, as well as the evolution of the characters of Dostoevsky’s works in relation to the Book. The article also provides additional evidence of Dostoevsky’s thorough knowledge of the Quran. The acquaintance with it took place thanks to the writer’s personal impressions of meeting Muslims in Omsk prison and during the Semipalatinsk exile, reading the Quran in its various translations and editions and biographical books about Mohammed, and especially through the mediation of the eminent Kazakh orientalist Chokan Valikhanov, who, aligned with Russian orientalism, was interested in the history of world religions. Thanks to the interaction with him, Dostoevsky developed an understanding of the genetic relationship of the “heavenly book” with the Bible that was reflected in many of his works, in which the correlation of Quranic images and motifs with the Bible is obvious. One of the most striking examples is the “fantastic story” “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man,” which is an original “imitation of the Quran” by Dostoevsky that does not contradict the spirit of the Gospel. It is concluded that, following Pushkin, Dostoevsky, based on an understanding of the root connection between the Bible and the Quran as equivalent “eternal books” of mankind, came to their conjugation in artistic terms.

Many bibliographic databases describe the content of a publication using a thesaurus. The vocabularies vary and the extent to which the databases apply them may also differ significantly. The aim of this study is to empirically explore the number of subject headings assigned to publications in two databases over time and to determine if publication characteristics are associated with the number of subject headings. Articles and reviews in MEDLINE and Embase from 1990 to 2019 assigned with one of the subject headings from six subject areas are included in this study. Each of the retrieved publications in Embase is matched with a similar publication in MEDLINE. Furthermore, multivariable linear regressions are used to explore the association of the number of subject headings in MEDLINE and Embase with six prespecified publication characteristics. The average number of assigned subject headings in MEDLINE is stable or even slightly decreasing over time. In Embase, the average number of assigned subject headings was stable until about 2000 where the average number increased dramatically during the next 3 years. Furthermore, linear regressions show that the average number of subject headings in MEDLINE and Embase is higher for publications in English, publications with longer abstract, recent publications and if it belongs to specific subject areas. However, reviews are assigned with more subject headings in Embase and fewer in MEDLINE. The implications of the results are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article addresses the role of libraries in socio-political debates on the history of (German) colonialism and its effects up to the present. In particular, the collaboration of initiatives in the network Colonial Contexts, the work on vocabulary, and authority files as well as the handling of research data of indigenous origin are presented against the background of ethical-political questions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

VocBench is a platform for the development and maintenance of thesauri, ontologies, and lexicons. The platform is used by the EU and other companies and offers an active community and technical support. The article describes the concept of the tree structure in VocBench, which only displays concepts that belong to selected schemas. Various actions are offered in the concept tree widget, and the concept view provides information about types, schemas, broader concepts, and properties of a concept. VocBench also offers alternative user interfaces and graph views. The platform enables knowledge sharing and collaboration with other users. [Extracted from the article]

This study aimed to develop a digital thesaurus dedicated to cataloging the traditional common culture of the Greater Mekong Subregion. The process followed a meticulous seven-step methodology, including scoping, vocabulary collection, knowledge structure analysis, relationship delineation, related word adjustments, list validation, and evaluation. Leveraging principles from knowledge organization, thesaurus construction, and digital platform development, the TemaTres web application emerged as the primary tool for constructing this thesaurus. The study's results showed that 2,042 principal words related to the traditional common culture of the Greater Mekong Subregion were compiled and classified into terms for each of the seven deep levels. Each term was accompanied by essential metadata, including broader and narrower terms, related terms, cross-references, and scope notes. This rich dataset empowered semantic search capabilities across diverse applications and web services, providing access to knowledge pertaining to the traditional common culture of the Greater Mekong Subregion and contributing to a deeper understanding of this cultural domain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Search strategies in the state space of knowledge bases in intellectual systems are considered. The directions of search from the initial data of the task to the goal and in reverse direction are shown. Rules and admissible moves leading to the goal in certain conditions of their application, when they become new search goals or subgoals, are analyzed. The problem-solving module is used as a search strategy for both data-driven and goal-driven search. It is shown that the choice of goal depends on the structure of the problem to be solved. The method of embedding the thesaurus into a probabilistic model for optimizing information retrieval is described. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aimed to develop a digital thesaurus dedicated to cataloging the traditional common culture of the Greater Mekong Subregion. The process followed a meticulous seven-step methodology, including scoping, vocabulary collection, knowledge structure analysis, relationship delineation, related word adjustments, list validation, and evaluation. Leveraging principles from knowledge organization, thesaurus construction, and digital platform development, the TemaTres web application emerged as the primary tool for constructing this thesaurus. The study’s results showed that 2,042 principal words related to the traditional common culture of the Greater Mekong Subregion were compiled and classified into terms for each of the seven deep levels. Each term was accompanied by essential metadata, including broader and narrower terms, related terms, cross-references, and scope notes. This rich dataset empowered semantic search capabilities across diverse applications and web services, providing access to knowledge pertaining to the traditional common culture of the Greater Mekong Subregion and contributing to a deeper understanding of this cultural domain.

Purpose: The present study is about generating metadata to enhance thematic transparency and facilitate research on interview collections at the Research Documentation Centre, Centre for Social Sciences (TK KDK) in Budapest. It explores the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in producing, managing and processing social science data and its potential to generate useful metadata to describe the contents of such archives on a large scale. Design/methodology/approach: The authors combined manual and automated/semi-automated methods of metadata development and curation. The authors developed a suitable domain-oriented taxonomy to classify a large text corpus of semi-structured interviews. To this end, the authors adapted the European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST) to produce a concise, hierarchical structure of topics relevant in social sciences. The authors identified and tested the most promising natural language processing (NLP) tools supporting the Hungarian language. The results of manual and machine coding will be presented in a user interface. Findings: The study describes how an international social scientific taxonomy can be adapted to a specific local setting and tailored to be used by automated NLP tools. The authors show the potential and limitations of existing and new NLP methods for thematic assignment. The current possibilities of multi-label classification in social scientific metadata assignment are discussed, i.e. the problem of automated selection of relevant labels from a large pool. Originality/value: Interview materials have not yet been used for building manually annotated training datasets for automated indexing of scientifically relevant topics in a data repository. Comparing various automated-indexing methods, this study shows a possible implementation of a researcher tool supporting custom visualizations and the faceted search of interview collections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Twitter is rich in data for text and data analytics research, with the ability to capture trends. Objectives: This study examines Canadian tweets on marijuana legalization and terminology used. Presented as a case study, Twitter analytics will demonstrate the varied applications of how this kind of research method may be used to inform library practice. Methods: Twitter API was used to extract a subset of tweets using seven relevant hashtags. Using open‐source programming tools, the sampled tweets were analysed between September to November 2018, identifying themes, frequently used terms, sentiment, and co‐occurring hashtags. Results: More than 1,176,000 tweets were collected. The most popular hashtag co‐occurrence, two hashtags appearing together, was #cannabis and #CdnPoli. There was a high variance in the sentiment analysis of all collected tweets but most scores had neutral sentiment. Discussion: The case study presents text‐mining applications relevant to help make informed decisions in library practice through service analysis, quality analysis, and collection analysis. Conclusions: Findings from sentiment analysis may determine usage patterns from users. There are several ways in which libraries may use text mining to make evidence‐informed decisions such as examining all possible terminologies used by the public to help inform comprehensive evidence synthesis projects and build taxonomies for digital libraries and repositories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information fusion is a vital process in information management systems, which aims to merge information from multiple sources to provide a more comprehensive and accurate view of specialized domain. In structured information management systems, there are several methods for aggregating, consolidating, and fusioning information, but their approaches have not yet provided a clear pattern. The aim of the current research is to explain the concept and appropriate models of information fusion in information management systems and its use in relationship-based databases such as thesaurus. The research method is a conceptual type with ananalytical approach. The research population consisted of texts and outputs in the field of information fusion. The data collected by the library method. The findings showed that information fusion models are in four general categories of models based on information flow, workflow and activity, roles and functions of entities, and understanding concepts. The Omnibus workflow and activity model and the model based on the roles and functions of Endsley's entity as selected models according to the basic JDL are suitable for use in relationship-based information management systems such as thesauruses and ontologies, and they have the ability to be used with some changes. The main disadvantage of the reviewed information fusion models is not paying attention to the characteristics of specific information structures such as thesauruses. Not considering role of expert users in information systems based on user decisions that have the task of extracting specialized information and ignoring the collective participation system to solve complex problems, including finding similarities and solving it in the mass of information, not describing the required functions to solve the problems, managing the effects in case of system or user errors and restoring fusioned and consolidated information, as well as non-implementation of methods with operational examples in such structures, can be counted among these problems. In general, in each model of information fusion in information management systems based on thesaurus, the general processes of finding similarities, examining similarities, aggregating parameters and information fusion and managing the effectiveness of sub-systems should be considered. Unlike traditional information fusion methods that focus more on merge data, semantic information fusion emphasizes fusioning related knowledge and concepts stored in thesauruses instead of merging data and information. Therefore, it is suggested to pay attention to Semantic approaches in the process of integrating and fusion new models.

The learning process uses many foreign terms and synonyms, so various media are sometimes used in the learning process to provide understanding related to a term. One of them is a thesaurus commonly used to provide meanings and similarities in words so that students know the meaning and synonyms of the terms. A thesaurus is a list of words that have the same meaning and are arranged lexicographically. This study aims to determine thesaurus research trends in the realm of education or learning and the use of thesaurus as a learning medium and learning support. A systematic search of study literature was conducted based on the PRISMA framework. The population of this study is scientific articles indexed by Scopus with a span of the last five years that discuss related to thesaurus and education. Analysis of the literature revealed that thesaurus can be used as an additional learning medium to improve student understanding. Thesaurus development in each branch of science is needed because the thesaurus as a learning tool can support students understanding of the concentration of science they choose.

The sphere of “Education” can be understood in terms of culture, knowledge, axiology, etc. This indicates the integrative and multi-aspect nature of the content behind lexemes such as education, learning, teaching, and studying. The main aspect of this article is lexicographic, with the aim of determining the scope and structure of the lexical set of words comprising the ideographic sphere of “Education” in modern Russian language. The work was carried out as part of the development of the project “Universal Ideographic Dictionary-Thesaurus of the Russian” by the Ural Semantic School under the guidance of L. G. Babenko. Materials from various dictionaries prepared by this team of researchers were used. Methods used included component analysis of lexical meaning and ideographic classification. Various types of relationships organizing this lexical set were identified in order to present a modeling of the “Education” sphere as a fragment of the denotative-ideographic world map. Examples of words and word groups related by hyper-hyponymy, meronymy, synonymy, and antonymy within the denotative-ideographic groups of this sphere are provided. It is shown that the lexical set of words representing the sphere of “Education,” like many other similar classes of words denotatively linked to human social life, is structured not hierarchically, but in accordance with components of represented situations.

• A survey in terms of meaning and witness: identify, give a name, and even replace wooden pieces in the original Notre-Dame de Paris's framework using digital resources. • 3D restitution is helpful to create precise wood volume estimations. • First results of dendrochronology enable the phasing of the different parts of the Notre-Dame's frameworks. • The relocated remains dating will confirm or overturn archaeological hypothesis and allow wood resources studies. The tragic fire of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on April 15th 2019 has provided researchers with a wide variety of materials to study. The condition of the framework remains does not allow any reuse, which creates an unprecedented opportunity to study the charred pieces of the frame: about 10,000 for the highest estimates. But upstream from the wooden items study, an inventory is required to establish methods that are consistent with the potential of the charred remains of the cathedral's framework. The purpose of this article is therefore to present the problems raised, the methods applied, the potential of the remains of the n-dame's frame - so called the "forest" - and the first results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The purpose of this study is to introduce the compilation process and characteristics of the new Yonsei Korean Synonyms Dictionary(YKSD), and to suggest how the synonym dictionary could be used in teaching language. Despite the importance of synonym distinction for language learners and teachers, thus far, synonym dictionaries have generally presented lists of synonyms, in a manner similar to a thesaurus. We would like to introduce the YKSD as a new model for a Korean thesaurus, and discuss what information is presented and how the information is illustrated. We provide the lexical information and description of synonyms based on an analysis of corpus rather than the intuition of dictionary compilers. The macrostructure and microstructure of the YKSD are specially designed to assist in distinguishing synonyms. The contents of this dictionary can be used in various ways in the course of developing teaching materials for language learners. In this study, we will look at the uses of this dictionary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The research is relevant due to the interest of linguistics in studying Russian-language mediatization discursive practices, which contribute to the perception and evaluation of the contemporarily implemented concepts envisioned as a new social reality in media communication. The article introduces the mechanism of transcultural concept mediatization exemplified by the concept “Individual Mobility” that is emerging in the Russian language consciousness. The paper substantiates corpus linguistic methodology applicability to research into the scrutiny of the current media practices. The dynamic nature of introduction and inculcation of ideas upon the significance of mobility provided by personal transporters as the fashionable way of life, represented in the thesaurus of media texts corpus, proves research outcomes novelty. By applying the corpus methods, the linguistic mechanisms of the concept “Individual Mobility” mediatization are revealed as being represented in the dominance of translingual units in the key concept domain nominations and chronological variability in the nominative density of their implementation; the thematically heterogeneous nature of thesaurus of the texts corpus governs the perception of the contemporarily implemented concept by Russian-speaking actors of mass media discourse. The evaluation vector in conceptualization of the socially significant phenomenon under study in the Russian media discourse is determined, its specificity is described. The concept “Individual Mobility” mediatization is being traced in the hybridization of the thematic layer of media texts corpus, in particular, in the presence of administrative discourse vocabulary whilst the relative stability of terminology that nominates fashionable personal transporters and their users. The presence of lexical units, which comprise the thematic group “Risk of injury” accompanied by legal and administrative vocabulary, indicates the dynamic formation of mass critical and negative comprehension of the concept “Individual Mobility” domain accomplished by means of the chosen vectors of mediatization.

With the deepening of China's foreign exchange, the importance of translation is becoming more and more prominent, but some scholars and translators still have great misunderstandings about translation, and translation has been in a neglected position. Aiming at this phenomenon, this paper introduces information theory into English translation and cross-cultural communication. It proposes an automatic translation control method based on the information entropy model to improve the accuracy and efficiency of translation. It expands the lexicon based on the information entropy model, which is divided into basic lexicon, specialized lexicon, and neologism lexicon. Then, it constructs a semantic model to complete the automated extraction of lexicon features and realize automatic translation. The transfer of language information and the modification of terminological structure are discussed in cross-cultural communication to improve the challenges of English translation and cross-cultural communication. During the translation process, the correlation between the entropy of Chinese and English corresponding unitary, binary, and ternary words - sentence entropy decreases gradually (0.993->0.977->0.972). The largest value of information entropy loss in different cultural contexts is caused by the tonal-phonetic contrast of combining yinping and declination. The relative degree of information loss is 5.300585%. This study has provided new perspectives for translation research through the use of redundant information theory and discrete information theory.

This paper completes the overall design of a linguistic interactive terminology database based on the characteristics of second language acquisition and terminology and completes the construction of the terminology database by combining a goodness-of-fit detection algorithm based on terminology eigenvalue extraction. The efficiency of terminology information recognition is analyzed and compared with the terminology conversion rate of the eigenvalue goodness-offit algorithm using a neural network learning model of long and short-term memory to optimize the performance of the terminology database. The metric approach's classifier performance evaluation metrics are used to compare the accuracy and recall of the two algorithms accurately. The results show that the accuracy of the fitted superiority classifier with the application of word eigenvalue embedding compared to the LSTM classifier for the classification of electric power terms is improved by about 11% in all categories, and the average accuracy of the classifier exceeds 76.5%.

The project establishing the Croatian paremiological minimum and optimum began in 2014 during which valuable data was collected from 1,585 informants, who completed two sets of field questionnaires – the first and the second final text presentation of the proverbs occurring most frequently in the three biggest Croatian corpora (see Aleksa Varga and Keglević 2020a). The questionnaires were analyzed using the model analysis developed by Chlosta and Grzybek (see Chlosta and Grzybek 2005, 2015 and Grzybek 2012), based on a 4-code system. Since part of the analysis of both studies regarding the zero variant and the familiarity of Croatian proverbs have already been published (see Aleksa Varga and Keglević 2020b), the scope of this paper lies in analyzing the variations of the first, second, or third degree. As one of the goals of the research, apart from establishing the Croatian paremiological minimum and/or optimum, is also the construction of an electronic Croatian paremiological thesaurus, it is of utmost importance to analyze the proverb variations from the field questionnaires for inclusion in the database as well; i.e., to determine if they appear frequently enough alongside or instead of the proposed zero variant. Therefore, the present paper analyzes the Croatian proverb variants of the first, second, and third degree from the quantitative, qualitative, and corpus linguistic point of view, providing suggestions on further steps in constructing the Croatian proverbial thesaurus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work presents an approach to creating interpreted vector representations of words in which each component of the vector corresponds to a certain interpreted semantic category. To obtain such categories, a lexical and semantic resource in the form of the semantic network RuWordNet is used, as well as a representative corpus of Russian-language texts for generating vector representations. The resulting interpreted vector representations were tested for the ability to display different models in the same vector space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subject. This article discusses the agent-based model describing the process when two or more individuals meet for the first time and form a small social group based on interests. It is assumed that when they get to know each other, they exchange information about certain phenomena of the surrounding world and their attitudes to them. The article describes a study which involved simulation of the process of how the significance of these phenomena in their understanding of the surrounding world by each individual changes as a result of such interactions. Purpose. To determine the possibility of the formation of interest groups in a random sample of individuals and the nature of changes in their attitudes to the world as a result of several consecutive interactions between them within the paradigm of agent-based models. Results. The method of hierarchical cluster analysis revealed stable interest groups which were formed within a random sample of individuals. A series of interactions between the participants of these groups significantly expanded the range of the participants’ ideas about the surrounding world and their confidence that their attitudes to the phenomena of the surrounding world were right. Conclusions. It was shown that groups of individuals with completely opposite characteristics can emerge even in a random sample of individuals. What is more, the participants of each group will have similar ideas about the surrounding world. It was also shown that repeated interactions between the individuals within these groups boost their confidence about their attitudes to certain phenomena of the surrounding world. It was noted that currently the Internet is an important platform for such interactions.

This paper presents an approach to creating interpretable word embeddings, in which each component of the vector corresponds to some interpretable semantic category. To obtain such categories, a lexico-semantic resource is used in the form of the RuWordNet semantic network, as well as a representative corpus of Russian-language texts to train vector representations. The resulting interpretable embeddings were evaluated on semantic similarity tasks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Thesauri sind etablierte Instrumente der bibliothekarischen Sacherschließung. Durch die jüngste technologische Entwicklung und das Aufkommen künstlicher Intelligenz haben sie an Bedeutung gewonnen, da sie in der Lage sind, erklärbare Ergebnisse für die computergestützte Erschließungs- und Konkordanzarbeit mit anderen Datensätzen und Modellen sowie für die Datenvalidierung zu liefern. Ausgehend von bestehenden eigenen Recherchen für eine Masterarbeit wird der Aspekt der Qualitätssicherung in Bibliothekskatalogen anhand ausgewählter Beispiele vertieft. Thesauri are established tools for subject indexing. Through recent technological evolution and the rise of artificial intelligence they have become more relevant by their ability to deliver explainable results for computer-aided indexing- and concordance work with other data sets and models, and for data validation. Based on existing own research for a master thesis we expand on the aspect of quality assurance in library catalogs, following selected examples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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It is found that in the mythological discourse of English-speaking countries there are many concepts that are represented in the minds of people who study English as a fuzzy set of isolated concepts. This leads to difficulties that hinder the understanding and correct use of mythological terminology. The purpose of the study is to systematize the English-language mythological discourse and its terms using the thesaurus approach, which involves the construction of semantic fields and the identification of the information-semiotic nature of the studied terminology. To identify the meaning of the terms under study, we chose a semiotic approach, since in it each linguistic sign is considered as a sign consisting of the signified or content side of the linguistic sign and the signifier (otherwise called the MY? expression). It is in the signified of the linguistic sign that the meaning components are laid, which allow revealing the semantic nature of the term. Thus, it is the information-semiotic nature of the terminology Greek mythology that acts as the subject of research. In the course of the study, the semantic field god was constructed with two schemes of semantic relations; a dictionary entry was written for each term of this field. The study showed that the identification of the information-semiotic nature of English mythological terminology contributed not only to the differentiation of nuances in the meaning of mythological terms due to the creation of new dictionary entries, but also helped to clearly illustrate the connection of terms within the field by constructing schemes intended for the title term God. The results obtained can be used in the process of professional training of linguists, as well as for the development of lecture courses and for conducting seminars on foreign literature

The principles of data collection and organization for the new Universal Ideographic Dictionary-Thesaurus of Russian Vocabulary, created at the Ural Federal University (Yekaterinburg, Russia) under the guidance of Professor L. G. Babenko is discussed in the article. The specificity of previous lexicographic sources is reviewed. Ideographic databases, with which the staff of the Ural Semantic School worked earlier, are characterized. Examples of identifying denotative spheres and denotative-ideographic groups, the structure of which makes up the synopsis of the thesaurus are given. The number of these classes and the set of entries in the original database, which is the basis of the future dictionary, are discussed. In addition, examples of forms for working with dictionaries and the data structure (a set of fields) of the Universal Ideographic Dictionary-Thesaurus are shown. In addition, examples of forms for working with dictionaries and the data structure (a set of fields) of the Universal Ideographic Dictionary-Thesaurus are shown. The reasons for the quantitative asymmetry of the new thesaurus and the original database are considered: statistical, logical-semantic and lexical-grammatical factors. Conclusions are drawn about the prospects of the new project as uniting and developing the ideas of the Ural Semantic School.

The paper introduces the upcoming outputs of the Lexico-Semantic Database Project (LSD-Czech) supported by The Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TA CR) [TL02000041]: a Czech online conceptual dictionary and a lexico-semantic database. It reviews the phases of the implementation of the project and its results to be made available by the end of 2022. It describes both the dictionary and the database (from which the dictionary is generated). While the dictionary is intended for the general user, the database will serve linguists and experts in natural language processing and language data application. The paper briefly discusses the field of onomasiological lexicography, focusing on what is an onomasiological dictionary, what dictionaries of this type exist for Czech, and introduces the two dictionaries on which the database is founded, Haller’s Český slovník věcný a synonymický (1969–86) and Klégr’s Tezaurus jazyka českého (2007). The focus of the paper is on the description of the functions and features of the dictionary, the steps whereby to search in it and the envisaged future improvements. Finally, it gives the specifications of the database and the next steps planned in its development.

Data's role in a variety of technical and research areas is undeniably growing. This can be seen, for example, in the increased investments in the development of data-intensive analytical methods such as artificial intelligence (Zhang 2022), as well as in the rising rate of data generation which is expected to continue into the near future (Rydning and Shirer 2021). Academic research is one of the areas, where data is the lifeblood of generating hypotheses, creating new knowledge, and reporting results. Unlike proprietary industry data, academic research data is often subjected to stricter requirements regarding transparency, and accessibility. This is in part due to the public funding which many research institutions receive. One way to fulfil these requirements is by observing the FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, Reusability) principles for scientific data (Wilkinson et al. 2016). These introduce a variety of benefits, such as increased research reproducibility, a more transparent use of public funding, and environmental sustainability. A way of implementing the FAIR principles in practice is with the help of FAIR Digital Objects (FDOs) (European Commission: Directorate-General for Research and Innovation 2018). A FDO consists of data, an accompanying Persistent Identifier (PID), and rich metadata which describes the context of the data. Additionally, the data format contained in an FDO should be widely used, and ideally open. Our presentation is focused on the third of FDO's components mentioned previously – metadata. It outlines the concept for a framework which enables the collaborative definition of metadata fields which can be used to annotate FDO-encapsulated data for a given domain of research.The first component of the presented framework is a controlled vocabulary of the domain related to the data which needs to be annotated. A controlled vocabulary is a collective that denotes a controlled list of terms, their definitions, and the relations between them. In the framework presented in this contribution, the terms correspond to the metadata fields used in the data annotation process. Formally, the type of controlled vocabularies used in the framework is a thesaurus (National Information Standards Organization 2010). Thesauri consist not only of the elements mentioned previously, but also allow for the inclusion of synonyms for every defined term. This eliminates the ambiguity which can occur when using terms with similar definitions. Additionally, thesauri specify simple hierarchical relations between the terms in the vocabulary, which can provide an explicit structure to the set of defined metadata fields. The most important feature of our framework, however, is that the controlled vocabularies can be developed in a collaborative fashion by the domain experts of a given research field. Specifically, people are able to propose term definitions and edits, as well as cast votes on the appropriateness of terms which have already been proposed.Despite their advantages, one limit of thesauri is their lacking capability of relating metadata fields to each other in a more semantically rich fashion. This motivated the use of the second component of the framework, namely ontologies. An ontology can be defined as “a specification of a conceptualization” (Gruber 1995). More precisely, it is a data structure which represents entities in a given domain, as well as various relations between them. After a set of metadata fields has been defined within a controlled vocabulary, that vocabulary can be transformed into an ontology which contains additional relations between the fields. These can extend beyond the hierarchical structure of a thesaurus and can contain domain-specific information about the metadata fields. For example, one such relation can denote the data type of the value which a given field must take. Furthermore, ontologies can be used to link not only metadata, but also data, as well as individual FDOs themselves. This can contribute to the Reusability aspect of FAIR Data Objects. For example, an FDO generated by a research group in a given domain can be linked to an existing domain ontology. Afterwards, the FDO can be reused more easily by researchers from the same scientific field, because the ontology will have already specified the FDO's relation to the subject area. Additionally, cross-domain ontologies can be combined with each other which can increase the reusability of FDOs beyond their domain boundaries.The components described above are being implemented in the form of multiple software tools related to the framework. The first one, a controlled vocabulary editor written as a Python-based web application called VocPopuli, is the entry point for domain experts who want to develop a metadata vocabulary for their field of research or lab. The software, whose first version is already being tested internally, enables the collaborative definition, and editing of metadata terms. Additionally, it annotates each term, as well as the entire vocabulary, with the help of the PROV Data Model (PROV-DM) (Moreau and Missier 2013) - a schema used to describe the provenance of a given object. Finally, it assigns a PID to each term in the vocabulary, as well as the vocabulary itself. It is worth noting that the generated vocabularies themselves can be seen through the prism of FDOs: they contain data (the defined terms) which is annotated with metadata (e.g., the terms' authors) and provided with a PID.The second software solution will facilitate the transformation of the vocabularies developed with the help of VocPopuli into ontologies. It will handle two distinct use cases – the from-scratch conversion of vocabularies into ontologies, and the augmentation of existing ontologies with the terms from a given thesaurus. As is the case with VocPopuli, the second tool is being developed in the Python programming language. The software solutions will be finally tested by two semi-overlapping groups of users from materials science. On the one hand, domain experts will input, edit, and discuss vocabulary terms in their area of interest, and thus create vocabularies. On the other hand, vocabulary and ontology administrators will oversee the vocabulary creation, and ontology transformation processes in a semi-automatic fashion.After development is complete, the tools will be used in the creation of controlled vocabularies for various experimental procedures, as well as their transformation and/or integration into semantically richer ontologies. This will augment our already published work in the area (Garabedian et al. 2022) and will thereby test the integration of the new framework with already existing resources. The new vocabularies will describe processes in multiple domains, such as materials science, tribology, and metalworking. Afterwards, the developed thesauri will be used in the creation of metadata templates which can be used to annotate experimental data generated in the procedures mentioned above.

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In der Pressedokumentation beim Deutschen Bundestag wurde im Zusammenhang mit dem Umzug des deutschen Parlaments von Bonn nach Berlin im Jahr 1999 ein elektronisches Produktions-, Recherche- und Archivsystem eingeführt. In einem problemorientierten Rückblick werden die damit verbundenen Veränderungen in Beziehung gesetzt zu den an seine Einführung geknüpften Zielen und Erwartungen. In diesem zweiten Teil geht es um die Auswirkungen auf die Praxis der inhaltlichen Erschließung von Zeitungsartikeln und die damit verbundenen Recherchemöglichkeiten. Dabei werden Probleme bei der Verwendung des Pressethesaurus erörtert. In connection with the relocation of the German Parliament from Bonn to Berlin in 1999, an electronic production, research and archiving system was introduced in the press documentation at the German Bundestag. In a problem-oriented retrospective, the changes associated with this are set in relation to the goals and expectations attached to its introduction. This second part deals with the effects on the practice of indexing newspaper articles and the resulting search options. Problems with the use of the press thesaurus are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the article consists in the study of modern Ukrainian composer V. Antoniuk's reading of T. Shevchenko's program poem "Testament" using the means of musical expressiveness inherent in his individual manner with the use of the arsenal of artistic and technical tools of choral writing. Research methodology comprises a cultural approach, structural-systemic, complex and musicological analysis with generalisation of the results. Scientific novelty. Valerii Antoniuk's choral writing has been explored for the first time through the prism of the thesaurus of musical symbols and the concept of neo-romanticism (symbolism) in the context of the Ukrainian musical tradition. Conclusions. The genre of this work has been determined as "choir fresco". The authors have found that neo-romanticism is an important component in V. Antoniuk's artistic worldview and philosophical paradigm, so the influence of romanticism poetics can be traced in the work. The archetypal images of Ukrainian artistic culture embedded in the work are analysed, which are simultaneously identified with reality, but also remain certain generalising symbols of the musical thesaurus of the author's style. The mood of the lyrical hero of the work is represented -- the narrator-protagonist with the entire spectrum of his feelings, philosophical perception of the depths of the life fullness, merging with the surrounding world, feeling a part of it. The personal feelings and moods of the Ukrainian composer of the beginning of the 21st century are outlined and characterised. V. Antoniuk's understanding of the artistic and aesthetic idea, time-space, height and power accentuation of traditional singing of his native Shevchenko region by birth and origin, conglomerated with the means of modern compositional technique, revealed a deep level of the artist's individual mentality, which vividly certifies the ontological genesis of his creative identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Объектом рассмотрения в статье является кликбейт-заголовок, функционирующий в баннерном пространстве интернет-страницы в качестве мотивирующего сигнала для перехода по гиперссылке. Лингво-когнитивное конструирование кликбейта полностью подчинено задаче привлечения внимания пользователя, конечная цель заказчика этого вида рекламы – монетизация интернет-портала. В статье предлагается описание механизма когнитивной «ловушки» для «захвата внимания» читателя, приводится его обоснование в терминах ложной пресуппозиции и тезауруса пользователя. В отношении кликбейта выделяются языковой, медийный и дискурсивный тезаурусы, на основе которых создатели кликбейтов формируют искаженную пресуппозицию, провоцирующую любопытство реципиента и его последующее действие – клик. На материале баннерного пространства Рунета рассматриваются способы реализации когнитивной ловушки в трех основных типах логико-семантических трансформаций в направлении «текст → кликбейт-заголовок» – элиминации, субституции и компликации.

The paper is devoted to the principles of compiling a bilingual dictionary of investment terms. In the article, a preparatory stage of thesaurus modeling, including analysis of methodological base and identification of methods, is described. According to the parametric approach underlying the creation of a thesaurus, a number of key parameters of dictionary structures is identified. Background. The terminology system in the field of the investment activity on the equity market is constantly and intensively updated with new terms. The lack of such type of dictionaries, which are essential for linguists, translators and other professionals in linguistics as well as investors and traders, makes the compiling of the dictionary quite relevant. Purpose. Identification and description of principles and stages of compiling a bilingual dictionary of investment terms. Materials and methods. The materials for the study include financial market articles and reviews, fund platforms vocabulary as well as legal documents, governing investments on the stock market. Research methods include continuous sampling method, comparative method and stratification method. Results. The algorithm for practical stage of working with linguistic material on the example of modeling a dictionary entry of specified dictionary, which describes the term “Stock market index”, is presented. Practical implications. The practical significance of the research results lies in the possibility of using described principles and stage of compiling a thesaurus as well as a dictionary entry for compiling other dictionaries by linguists and translators.

This study addressed the definition of the thesaurus, its purpose, purpose, function, and the obstacles facing the process of building an Arabic thesaurus in the web environment. The study reviewed the need and goal of creating an electronic thesaurus for library and information science terms. A thesaurus of library and information science terms was also built as a sample of a proposed project to build a general thesaurus in various branches. Promised knowledge for use in the process of automated indexing of scientific materials, as well as to assist researchers in the process of searching and retrieving the materials to be accessed. The study reviewed in an applied manner the stages of establishing the thesaurus for library and information sciences, the stages of its preparation and organization, and the database that was built specifically for this purpose, as well as the thesaurus’ website on the Internet.

Context: The medical record often contains free text notes on biographical data of the patient. More or less recent, they may have unexpected consequences on the patient's health status, or necessary for his follow-up. The absence of standardized writing makes it difficult for caregivers to use this information and to make medical and scientific use of it. Therefore, it would be appropriate to explore the structuring of "life events" in the medical record by attempting to answer the following question: is it possible to formalize a list of life events that can be used in the medical record by the general practitioners in daily practice? Method: This work was carried out in three stages: bibliographic research to list all the publications referring the notion of life event; formalization of a list of life events; evaluation of the usability of the list with 642 general practitioners through an online questionnaire (quantitative). Results: A list of 48 life events divided into 8 main categories has been established with the working group. The analysis of the evaluation of this list highlighted the adherence of doctors, both for its content and for its usefulness. Participants suggested some adjustments to the list and insisted on the importance of integrating this list into medical software. Conclusion: The creation of a list of life events that can be used in a medical file is achievable. Its acceptability by physicians encourages further work by carrying out a survey on a larger sample of physicians. The aim is to improve record keeping and therefore the quality of patient care, while providing comfort to the physician in his decision-making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]