Core Word

A Core Word is a Word that represents an essential Concept about some underlying Linguistic Artifact.

• AKA: Coreword.
• Context:
  • It can (typically) be a Content Word.
  • It can be a Member of:
    • a Core Word List.
    • a Word Vector.
  • …
• Example(s):
  • A Technical Term in a Research Paper Abstract.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • A Function Word in a Webpage.
• See: Stopword, Inverse Document Frequency.

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