Design of a Controlled Language for Critical Infrastructures Protection

We describe a project for the construction of controlled language for critical infrastructures protection (CIP). This project originates from the need to coordinate and categorize the communications on CIP at the European level. These communications can be physically represented by official documents, reports on incidents, informal communications and plain e-mail. We explore the application of traditional library science tools for the construction of controlled languages in order to achieve our goal. Our starting point is an analogous work done during the sixties in the field of nuclear science known as the Euratom Thesaurus.JRC.G.6-Security technology assessmen

Bird song as a basis for new techniques and improvisational practice with the baroque flute

Merged with duplicate record 10026.1/2753 on 03.04.2017 by CS (TIS)Subsequent to a period of training as a flautist, I ultimately specialised professionally on the baroque flute. Consequently, a significant part of my research for a PhD was practice-led. My later career; concerned with dance and choreography, represented a widening and diversification of my interest in music in particular, and the allied arts in general. This was (and continues to be) paralleled, however, with a substantial research-interest in aspects of the performance of music and its potential interconnection(s) with modalities of speech. However, my own research commenced with a strong desire to discover new performance techniques on the baroque flute. Earlier performer/composers on the instrument explored, documented and analysed new ways of performing on the instrument. This research continues that form of practice-led investigation. This investigation has been centred on performance-experiments of an often improvisatory kind, but by the time of its completion, I too became a performer/composer on the instrument. The research became focussed on a critical and analytical study of birdsong. Birdsong offers a degree of pitch and timbral variation of phenomenal power. My research questioned and interrogated the structure; modes of delivery and sonorities in birdsong because I wanted to devise a new method of playing that might approach these avian sonic possibilities and by absorbance, produce a new musical language on the baroque flute. Previous ornithological writings (Thorpe; Armstrong, Hartshorne, et at) have frequently considered birdsong as a form of music. Thus, my research examined documentary outcomes from research into birdsong in the form of analysis of recordings, and critical scrutiny of sonographs. Birds `perform' in varying degrees of tonal, atonal and microtonal systems. The research paralleled these treatments of pitch and harmony. It also addressed issues of structure, dynamics, timbre, rhythm and the physical aspects of delivery with the intention of devising a new `method' for the generation of a new music for the instrument. The research has of course been polymodal and interdisciplinary. It consisted of the following methodological, practical and theoretical domains, namely: • critical and analytical readings in the science of ornithology; especially birdsong • critical and analytical readings in historical models for performance on the baroque flute; • field-studies in the form of recordings and notational transcriptions (via Messiaen and Cowie, et al) of birdsong; • practical experiments as a soloist (improviser) together with collaborative, experimental and practical research with an ensemble and/or another baroque flautist. The purpose of this research was to find new techniques for contemporary musicians, accompanied by a body of writing that embodies a kind of treatise on the instrument with potential for use by other contemporary musicians. Thus, the written thesis, together with recordings of experiments, improvisations and concert-performance should be considered as a collective body of new knowledge in relation to performance on the baroque flute in particular, but with potential for use by other (or all) musical instruments. My findings are that: • a new performance technique is required as a result of a study of birdsong and with the effect of producing a vastly extended repertoire of effects and pitch frequencies on the instrument; • this new technique generates a new musical language particularly in respect of treatments of microtonality; new breathing and fingering techniques; • the technique is transferable by teaching and demonstration to other performers and of potential use for contemporary composers writing for the instrument; • these new techniques were enhanced (if not made entirely possible) by field-studies and cross-disciplinary (arts/sciences) and illustrate the potency of cross-field research in the generation of new music. The principal outcome of my research was the development of a system of playing that has now been named by me as ecosonic performance. It is so-named, because the performance-techniques developed are based on a phenomenological study of the ecology of sound in birds; themselves already ecosonic performers. This written thesis is a documentation of my modalities of research, experimentation and practice. It is designed in the form of a commentary/treatise, and should be considered as a form of `primer', not only for the baroque flute, but also for the further investigation of the performance-capabilities of any musical instrument

The Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS): a situation report for the HIVE Project

HIVE (Helping Interdisciplinary Vocabularies Engineering) es un proyecto financiado por el IMLS (Institute of Museums and Library Services), e indirectamente, en Dryad, ambos proyectos en colaboración del Metadata Research Center y el National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) in Durham, North Carolina. Con el desarrollo de HIVE se pretende resolver esta problemática mediante una propuesta de generación automática de metadatos que permita la integración dinámica de vocabularios controlados específicos. Para asistir la integración de vocabularios se seleccionó SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organisation System), un estándar del World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) para la representación de sistemas de organización del conocimiento o vocabularios, como tesauros, esquemas de clasificación, sistemas de encabezamiento de materias y taxonomías, en el marco de la Web Semántica.El presente informe realiza un análisis exhaustivo de la situación en cuanto a la aplicación de SKOS. El estudio incluye una detallada revisión de literatura científica y recursos web sobre el modelo, una selección de los proyectos, iniciativas, herramientas, grupos de investigación claves y cualquier otro tipo de información que pudiera ser de relevancia para el logro de los objetivos del proyecto HIVE. Asimismo, se analiza la importancia de SKOS para el logro de la interoperabilidad semántica y se elaboran un conjunto de recomendaciones para los miembros del proyecto HIVE

SEMANTIC FIELDS AND EFL/ESL TEACHING

The vocabulary of a language is a system of interrelated lexical networks but not a collection of independent items. Vocabulary of a language is organised into fields within which words interrelate and define each other in various ways. Sense relations are not enough to explain the relation between some lexical items. For example, we cannot explain the relation between patient and hospital through synonymy, antonym, hyponymy, polysemy or homonymy, but we can say that they belong to the same semantic field which we can label as ‘health’.  In this paper, semantic field also known as word field, lexical field, field of meaning, and semantic system is explained by giving supporting examples. Besides, some implications for Teaching English as a Foreign Language/Teaching English as a Second Language (TEFL/TESL) are suggested.Key words: Semantic fields, structural semantics, lexical network, lexical field, semantic syste