Purpose – This paper seeks to explicate the notion of “semantics”, especially as it is being used in the context of the internet in general and advertising in particular. Design/methodology/approach – The conception of semantics as it evolved within linguistics is placed in its...

Purpose – This paper seeks to develop a specified typology of various levels of semantic interoperability, designed to provide semantically expressive and functional means to interconnect typologically different sub‐systems in an international comprehensive knowledge organization system,...

Purpose – The paper aims to develop a prototype middleware framework between different terminology resources in order to provide a subject cross‐browsing service for library portal systems. Design/methodology/approach – Nine terminology experts were interviewed to collect appropriate...

Purpose – This paper sets out to discuss the use of information extraction (IE), a natural language‐processing (NLP) technique to assist “rich” semantic indexing of diverse archaeological text resources. The focus of the research is to direct a semantic‐aware “rich” indexing of...

Purpose – The object of this study is to develop methods for automatically annotating the argumentative role of sentences in scientific abstracts. Working from Medline abstracts, sentences were classified into four major argumentative roles: objective, method, result, and conclusion. The idea...