El control de vocabulario en la era digital: Revisión conceptual

Abstract

Conceptual review of the history of vocabulary control, up to the present time, the digital age. Four different periods are established in information representation and retrieval in relation to the difficult coexistence between natural and controlled language techniques. A brief history of the term "vocabulary control" is traced showing how it originated in the teaching of English as a Second Language in the early 1930s. The five objectives of vocabulary control i.e. restriction, disambiguation, standardization, hierarchy and relation are developed. The author performs an analysis on the situation of vocabulary control in a digital environment, ruled by self-sufficient users who prefer natural language, while the people in charge of Internet portals and websites fixes their data following traditional standardization criteria. © 2014 Francisco Javier García Marco y los autores.