It is argued that English dictionaries currently provide evaluative information in addition to descriptive information about the words they contain, and that this aspect of dictionaries should be developed and expanded on. First, the historical background and distribution of the axiological parameter in English-language onomasiological…

The author describes his meetings with Henry E. Bliss originator of an influential classification system.

Clustering and other new techniques have changed classificatory principles and practice in many sciences. Discussed are defintions, purposes of classification, principles of classification, and recent trends. (Author/RH)

Describes a system of classification to describe alphabets and to show the various degrees of formal similarity which they bear to one another. (TO)

Describes an automatic procedure which uses the syntactic relations as the basis for grouping words into classes. It forms classes by grouping together nouns that occur as subject (or object) of the same verbs, and similarly by grouping together verbs occurring with the same subject or object. (Author)

Six spatial and three typographic coding systems were used to give 18 different styles of presentation for bibliographies. (Author)

Goffman's indirect method and a MeSH tree structure were used to classify a set of 109 medical documents. (PF)

A look at The London Education Classification, based on facet analysis, and has also been used as the basis for a thesaurus which was the English contribution to the multilingual thesaurus compiled for the EUDISED project of the Council of Europe. (Author)

A new classification is needed which would not prejudge the boundaries of art, one that would bring together in one place the literature on every sort of material artefact, tool, and artwork, without distinction. Within this grand class of artefacts, the sub-arrangement would, as far as possible, respect the integrity of individual cultures. Only…

Arguing for a "taxonomic approach" to the determination of the meaning of "rhetoric," this paper first indicates the need for renewed speculation about the ordering of knowledge as a whole. It then indicates the importance of general taxonomies for understanding rhetoric, illustrates its position with a pair of modern taxonomies, and concludes by…

Written in Russian, the article first notes common mistakes made by students of Russian and points out the dearth of synonym- and phraseological dictionaries of Russian. It then discusses 15 instances of synonymy. An alphabetical index of the 36 sample words is provided. (JH)

A three-level classification for describing computer assisted counseling systems is proposed. The first level consists of computer assisted systems which are information processing tools. Second level computer systems go beyond information processing and substitute for counselors in performing certain tasks. These systems, and those on the first…

The Center for Applied Linguistics, in its function as a clearinghouse for linguistic information, maintains a set of language files, limited to some 300 languages which have been selected from among the 3,000 to 4,000 in the world for their socio-political importance from an American point of view. The present list, compiled from these files,…

This article proposes some specific new guidelines for organizational taxonimizing that deliberately circumvent the problems of previous attempts, discusses the problem of selecting subgrouping dimensions for the formation of a taxonomy of organizations and proposes one possible set of such dimensions. (Author)