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Glossary
See also: List of glossaries
A glossary also known as an idioticon vocabulary or
glossary, idioticon, vocabulary,
See also
clavis is an alphabetical list of terms in a particular do-
clavis, • Terminology extraction
main of knowledge with the definitions for those terms.
Traditionally, a glossary appears at the end of a book and
includes terms within that book which are either newly
References
introduced, uncommon or specialized. [1] R. Navigli, P. Velardi. From Glossaries to
A bilingual glossary is a list of terms in one language Ontologies: Extracting Semantic Structure from
which are defined in a second language or glossed by syn- Textual Definitions, Ontology Learning and
onyms (or at least near-synonyms) in another language. Population: Bridging the Gap between Text and
In a general sense, a glossary contains explanations of Knowledge (P. Buitelaar and P. Cimiano, Eds.),
concepts relevant to a certain field of study or action. In Series information for Frontiers in Artificial
this sense, the term is related to the notion of ontology. Intelligence and Applications, IOS Press, 2008, pp.
Automatic methods have been also provided that trans- 71-87.
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A core glossary is a simple glossary or defining dictionary [3] Google’s Gaggle of New Goodies. Chris Sherman.
which enables definition of other concepts, especially for Search Engine Watch. 22 May, 2002.
newcomers to a language or field of study. It contains a [4] Google calls in the ’language police’. Jonathan
small working vocabulary and definitions for important Duffy. BBC News. 20 June, 2003.
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idioms or metaphors useful in a culture. In computer sci- Definder System for Fully Automatic Glossary
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search web pages belonging to a glossary therefore pro- to Create Specialized Glossaries, IEEE Intelligent
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entries found on the web.[3][4]
Automatic extraction of glos- External links
• Introduction to GlossML This article presents
saries Glossary Markup Language (GlossML), an open XML
Computational approaches to the automated extraction vocabulary specially designed to facilitate the
of glossaries from corpora[5] or the Web[6][7] have been exchange of glossaries.
developed in the recent years. These methods typically • The Glossarist - Large list of glossaries
start from domain terminology and extract one or more • The TAO of Topic Maps
glosses for each term of interest. Glosses can then be ana- • Babel Linguistics Glossaries Selected Multilingual
lyzed to extract hypernyms of the defined term and oth- Glossaries by Industry
er lexical and semantic relations. • Anchovy Anchovy is a free multilingual cross-
platform glossary editor and term extraction tool
based on the open Glossary Markup Language
(GlossML) format.
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