controlled vocabulary

collocation in English

meaningsofcontrolledandvocabulary

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controlled
adjective
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/kənˈtrəʊld/us
/kənˈtroʊld/
involving careful, intentional actions that limit risk ...
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vocabulary
noun
uk
/vəˈkæb.jə.lər.i/us
/voʊˈkæb.jə.ler.i/
all the words known and used by a ...
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(Definition ofcontrolledandvocabularyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcontrolled vocabulary

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Terms constitute acontrolledvocabularywith explicit definitions.
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The top six levels are selected fromcontrolledvocabularyphrases.
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In databases for which acontrolledvocabularywas not available, a simplified combination of textwords was used to embrace the concepts of parent training and conduct disorder.
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This is particularly prevalent in systems with a schema not based on acontrolledvocabulary, such as certain folksonomies.
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Those with verycontrolledvocabularyusage may ease difficulties for beginner or weak readers.
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If that is not the case, then you would have either a taxonomy (if hyponym relationships exist between concepts) or acontrolledvocabulary.
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Each article is also given 3-8 keywords, which constitute acontrolledvocabularyand allow enhanced search possibilities in addition to unstructured, free searches.
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This can involve extracting from the document or assigning from acontrolledvocabulary.
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The use ofcontrolledvocabularyensures that everyone is using the same word to mean the same thing.
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Controlledvocabularyterms can accurately describe what a given document is actually about, even if the terms themselves do not occur within the document's text.
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Index terms make up acontrolledvocabularyfor use in bibliographic records.
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There are two main kinds ofcontrolledvocabularytools used in libraries: subject headings and thesauri.
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Index terms can either come from acontrolledvocabularyor be freely assigned.
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This may or may not involve using keywords restricted to acontrolledvocabularylist.
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Learning standards can also take the form of learning objectives and content-specific standards andcontrolledvocabulary, as well as metadata about content.
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The third element is a value, preferably from somecontrolledvocabulary, some reference (master) data.
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Accordingly, authority control is an example ofcontrolledvocabularyand of bibliographic control.
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Metatagging learning objects or assessment objects with acontrolledvocabularyenhances the organization and retrieval of objects from a repository.
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Controlledvocabularysolves this problem by tagging the documents in such a way that the ambiguities are eliminated.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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