Vocabulary control in the digital age: a conceptual review

Authors

  • Mario Guido Barité Roqueta Escuela Universitaria de Bibliotecología y Ciencias Afines, Universidad de Montevideo, Uru

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54886/scire.v20i1.4196

Keywords:

Vocabulary control, Controlled vocabularies, Knowledge representation, Knowledge organization, Digital age

Abstract

Conceptual review of the history of vocabulary control, up to the present time, the digital age. Four dif-ferent periods are established in information representation and retrieval in relation to the difficult co-existence between natural and controlled language techniques. A brief history of the term “vocabulary control” is traced showing how it originated in the teaching of English as a Second Language in the early 1930s. The five objectives of vocabulary control i.e. restriction, disambiguation, standardization, hierarchy and relation are developed. The author performs an analysis on the situation of vocabulary control in a digital environment, ruled by self-sufficient users who prefer natural language, while the people in charge of Internet portals and websites fixes their data following traditional standardization criteria.

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Author Biography

Mario Guido Barité Roqueta, Escuela Universitaria de Bibliotecología y Ciencias Afines, Universidad de Montevideo, Uru

Mario Barité es profesor titular en la Escuela de Bibliotecología de la Universidad de la República del Uruguay, y actualmente es doctorando por la Universidad de Granada, España. Sus áreas de docencia e investigación son Clasificación, Terminología e Información Jurídica. Ha publicado ocho libros y más de sesenta artículos en revistas especializadas. Integra el consejo editorial de siete publicaciones periódicas de Bibliotecología y Ciencia de la Información en el área iberoamericana. Trabaja en favor del “open access” y de otras utopías posibles del mundo de la información.

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Published

2014-06-27

How to Cite

Barité Roqueta, M. G. (2014). Vocabulary control in the digital age: a conceptual review. Scire: Knowledge Representation and Organization (ISSNe 2340-7042; ISSN 1135-3716), 20(1), 99–108. https://doi.org/10.54886/scire.v20i1.4196

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Vol.20, N.1 (2014)

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