Indexing languages in information Management, a promising future or an obsolete resource

Authors

  • Jose Antonio Moreiro Dept. Biblioteconomía y Documentación, Univ. Carlos III. Getafe
  • Jorge Morato Dept. Informática, Univ. Carlos III, Leganés
  • Sonia Sanchez-Cuadrado Dept. Informática, Univ. Carlos III, Leganés
  • Anabel Fraga Dept. Informática, Univ. Carlos III, Leganés

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v7i2.95

Keywords:

Indexing language, controlled language, information representation, knowledge organization

Abstract

Indexing languages have traditionally been an essential tool for organizing and retrieving documental information. The inclusion of indexing languages into the digital environment leads to new frontiers, but also new opportunities. This study shows the historical evolution of the indexing languages and its application in document management field. We analyze diverse trends for their digital use from two perspectives: its integration with other digital and linguistic resources, and the adjustment of it to the Web environment. Finally, it is analyzed how these languages are used in the Web 2.0, and the incorporation of ontologies in the Semantic Web.

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Author Biographies

  • Jose Antonio Moreiro, Dept. Biblioteconomía y Documentación, Univ. Carlos III. Getafe
    Jose Antonio Moreiro joined the Carlos III University of Madrid in 1991. is Professor at the Department of Library and Information Science of the University. Jose Antonio Moreiro is leader of the Information Engineering Group, where research is being applied on knowledge organization systems. He teaches Knowledge Organization Systems and Indexing techniques. Is author of 8 monographs and collaborated in other 12, thus like of 64 articles in international and national magazines. Has participated in two European projects and directed or collaborated in 8 nationals, also in 12 publication committees. Has 8 long stays in Latin American universities, and explained courses and seminaries in 28 European and Latin American universities, and in 20 professional institutions. It has oriented 20 doctoral theses in the domain of Library and Information Science.
  • Jorge Morato, Dept. Informática, Univ. Carlos III, Leganés
    He is currently a professor of Information Science in the Department of Computer Science at the Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain). He obtained his PhD in Library Science from the Carlos III University in 1999 on the subject of Knowledge Information Systems and its relationships with linguistics. Professor Morato has taught courses on Information Retrieval, Search Engine Optimization, Software Engineering, and Knowledge Modelling Techniques and Management Systems. From 1991-1999, he had grants or contracts from the Spanish National Research Council. His current research activity is centred on text mining, information extraction and pattern recognition, NLP, information retrieval, Web positioning, and Knowledge Organization Systems. He has published mainly on semi-automatic construction of thesauri and ontologies, topic maps, and conceptual and contextualized retrieval of semantic documents.
  • Sonia Sanchez-Cuadrado, Dept. Informática, Univ. Carlos III, Leganés
    In 2001, she received a research fellowship (Personal Research) from Spanish Government (MCYT), to a research project of Department of Information Science and Department of Informatics of Carlos III University of Madrid. From 2001 to 2003, she researched about Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) and automatic construction and she received her PhD, with a work on Methontology to automatic construction of knowledge organization systems and Natural Language Processing (NLP). From 2003, she worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Informatics at the Carlos III University of Madrid. Her main research subjects within Knowledge Reuse Group are a domain analysis and automatic construction of knowledge organization systems such as thesauri and ontologies. This works have been realized into a project followed by public institutions or private companies. Her current research activity is centred on text mining, information extraction and pattern recognition, NLP, information retrieval, Web positioning, and Knowledge Organization Systems. She has published mainly on semi-automatic construction of thesauri and ontologies, topic maps, and conceptual and contextualized retrieval of semantic documents.
  • Anabel Fraga, Dept. Informática, Univ. Carlos III, Leganés
    She is a Computer Engineering professional. Previous to set aside in the academic work, she committed her efforts in the industry as UNIX Administrator (HP-UX, Digital Unix, and so forth), Application Administrator (SICAP, Comptel technology for Telecom companies), Windows Administrator and Project Management. She obtained the E-commerce Msc. in the Carlos III of Madrid University. She is studying a PhD in Computer Science in the Carlos III of Madrid University. Her central areas of research are: Software Architecture, Information Engineering and Reuse; but she is also interested in ethics and innovative methods of learning supporting new software architects. She is currently professor of Software Engineering and Information Engineering in Carlos III of Madrid University. She is member of ACM CSTA and IASA.

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Published

2009-11-18

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 2 (2009)

Section

Special Issue: What is Really Information? An Interdisciplinary Approach.

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tripleC is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal (ISSN: 1726-670X). All journal content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 License.