The prevalence of the concepts on the terms in the vocabularies for the semantic web

Abstract

Lexical representation of information has adapted to the conditions imposed by the Web on information generation and traffic. Systems based on controlled words or terms now coexist with others that have a conceptual and therefore semantic nature. The latter have experienced a decisive progression toward concept management, as thesauri have become semantic networks made possible by domain ontologies. The challenges arise in the processing of these concepts, their associative links, and their interoperability.