'Initializes a new Vocabulary instance.
Optional Arguments:
name -- (optional) the name of the vocabulary (Default: \'default\')
path -- (optional) the path in which the vocabulary exists or will
be created (Default: \'.\')'

def __init__(self, name='default', path='.'):

    self.name = name
    self.path = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(path, self.PATH_PREFIX, name))
    self._logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
