Glossary

<h2 id="core-glossary">Core glossary</h2>

<p>A <i>core glossary</i> is a simple glossary or <a href="/facts/Explanatory_dictionary/hHsg4BKB">explanatory dictionary</a> that enables definition of other concepts, especially for newcomers to a language or field of study. It contains a small working vocabulary and definitions for important or frequently encountered concepts, usually including idioms or metaphors useful in a culture.
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<h2 id="automatic-extraction-of-glossaries">Automatic extraction of glossaries</h2>
<p><a href="/facts/Text_processing/5UIbA5za">Computational approaches</a> to the automated extraction of glossaries from corpora<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> or the Web<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> have been developed in the recent years. These methods typically start from domain <a href="/facts/Terminology/1tfqvX1h">terminology</a> and extract one or more glosses for each term of interest. Glosses can then be analyzed to extract <a href="/facts/Hypernym/bjxUuoRb">hypernyms</a> of the defined term and other lexical and semantic relations.
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Controlled_vocabulary/JcYKWx3H">Controlled vocabulary</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Dictionary/klg2kL06">Dictionary</a></li>
<li><i><a href="/facts/Frahang-i_Pahlavig/FpC3NuGE">Frahang-i Pahlavig</a></i>, a glossary of Pahlavi logograms</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Index_(publishing)/amN9DI6s">Index (publishing)</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Terminology_extraction/TRjKaWct">Terminology extraction</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>

Look up <i>glossary</i> in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

<ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060320132442/http://www.glossarist.com/">glossarist.com: The Glossarist</a> - Large list of glossaries</li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050915123957/http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/tao.html">www.ontopia.net: The TAO of Topic Maps</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080820180152/http://www.babel-linguistics.com/glossaries.htm">www.babel-linguistics.com: Babel Linguistics Glossaries</a> Selected Multilingual Glossaries by Industry</li>
<li>Hessels, John Henry (1911). <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Gloss,_Glossary">"Gloss, Glossary" </a>. In <a href="/facts/Hugh_Chisholm/2vWblUBe">Chisholm, Hugh</a> (ed.). <i><a href="/facts/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition/mPElbCRY">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i>. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 124–128. This provides a detailed description of the development of glossaries in classical languages.</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>R. Navigli, P. Velardi. From Glossaries to Ontologies: Extracting Semantic Structure from Textual Definitions, Ontology Learning and Population: Bridging the Gap between Text and Knowledge (P. Buitelaar and P. Cimiano, Eds.),  Series information for Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, IOS Press, 2008, pp. 71-87. <a href="http://www.dsi.uniroma1.it/~navigli/pubs/Navigli_Velardi_IOS_2008.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.dsi.uniroma1.it/~navigli/pubs/Navigli_Velardi_IOS_2008.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>R. Navigli. Using Cycles and Quasi-Cycles to Disambiguate Dictionary Glosses, Proc. of 12th Conference of the European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2009), Athens, Greece, March 30-April 3rd, 2009, pp. 594-602. <a href="http://www.dsi.uniroma1.it/~navigli/pubs/EACL_2009_Navigli.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.dsi.uniroma1.it/~navigli/pubs/EACL_2009_Navigli.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>J. Klavans and S. Muresan. Evaluation of the Definder System for Fully Automatic Glossary Construction Archived 2019-12-22 at the Wayback Machine. In Proc. of American Medical Informatics Association Symp., 2001, pp. 324–328. <a href="https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smara/publications/klavans-amia01.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smara/publications/klavans-amia01.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>A. Fujii, T. Ishikawa. Utilizing the World Wide Web as an Encyclopedia: Extracting Term Descriptions from Semi-Structured Texts. In Proc. 38th Ann. Meeting Assoc. for Computational Linguistics, 2000, pp. 488–495. <a href="http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P00-1062" target="_blank">http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P00-1062</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>P. Velardi, R. Navigli, P. D'Amadio. Mining the Web to Create Specialised Glossaries, IEEE Intelligent Systems, 23(5), IEEE Press, 2008, pp. 18-25. <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4629722/;jsessionid=6EA3B4D4BD97E08BFCF5252EC653A1EA?arnumber=4629722" target="_blank">https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4629722/;jsessionid=6EA3B4D4BD97E08BFCF5252EC653A1EA?arnumber=4629722</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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