Glossary
A glossary is a terminology dataset (composed of glossary records) that does not aim to thoroughly cover some area of knowledge.
- AKA: Technical Term List, Clavis, Vocabulary.
- Context:
- It can (typically) be Alphabetically Sorted on the Term.
- It can (typically) have the word "Glossary" in its Title.
- It can range from being a Document Glossary (for some document) to being a Subject Area Glossary (for some subject area).
- It can be produced by a Glossary Creation Task.
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- Example(s):
- a Document Glossary, such as the ones in: (Sag et al., 2003), or (Nisbet et al., 2009)
- a Subject Area Glossary, such as:
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- Counter-Example(s):
- a Dictionary, such as a technical term dictionary.
- a Subject Area Encyclopedia.
- a Controlled Vocabulary.
- See: Technical Term Inventory, Gloss, Domain Of Knowledge, Definition, Synonym, Ontology.
References
2013
- (Wikipedia, 2013) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/glossary Retrieved:2013-12-8.
- A glossary, also known as a vocabulary, or clavis, is an alphabetical list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with the definitions for those terms. Traditionally, a glossary appears at the end of a book and includes terms within that book that are either newly introduced, uncommon, or specialized. While glossaries are most-commonly associated with non-fiction books, in some cases, fiction novels may come with a glossary for unfamiliar terms.
A bilingual glossary is a list of terms in one language defined in a second language or glossed by synonyms (or at least near-synonyms) in another language.
In a general sense, a glossary contains explanations of concepts relevant to a certain field of study or action. In this sense, the term is related to the notion of ontology. Automatic methods have been also provided that transform a glossary into an ontology [1] or a computational lexicon. [2]
- A glossary, also known as a vocabulary, or clavis, is an alphabetical list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with the definitions for those terms. Traditionally, a glossary appears at the end of a book and includes terms within that book that are either newly introduced, uncommon, or specialized. While glossaries are most-commonly associated with non-fiction books, in some cases, fiction novels may come with a glossary for unfamiliar terms.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ R. Navigli. Using Cycles and Quasi-Cycles to Disambiguate Dictionary Glosses, Proceedings of of 12th Conference of the European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2009), Athens, Greece, March 30-April 3rd, 2009, pp. 594-602.
- (Wikipedia, 2013) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Glossaries Retrieved:2013-12-8.
- On Wikipedia, a glossary is a special kind of document list. Each glossary is an alphabetically arranged list of a subject's terms, with definitions. Each term is followed by one or more explanatory (encyclopedia-style) definitions. (For example, see Glossary of architecture).
In order to explain jargon for Wikipedia's broad audience, each of its glossaries contains a working vocabulary and definitions for important concepts for a given subject area. A glossary usually includes a field's technical terms, jargon, idioms, and metaphors.
Glossaries can be stand-alone list articles or embedded in-article list sections. Stand-alone glossaries are typically titled "Glossary of subject terms". A glossary within an article usually starts with a heading with the title "Glossary".
- On Wikipedia, a glossary is a special kind of document list. Each glossary is an alphabetically arranged list of a subject's terms, with definitions. Each term is followed by one or more explanatory (encyclopedia-style) definitions. (For example, see Glossary of architecture).
2009
- http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/glossary
- Noun: (lexicography) A list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with the definitions for those terms.
2008
- (Dextre Clarke et al., 2008) ⇒ Stella Dextre Clarke, Alan Gilchrist, Ron Davies and Leonard Will. (2008). “Glossary of Terms Relating to Thesauri and Other Forms of Structured Vocabulary for Information Retrieval." Willpower Information
- glossary a list of terms, together with definitions, specific to a given field of knowledge, usually presented in alphabetical order. Such terms are usually of a technical, abstruse or archaic nature. A glossary is often related to a specific document and appears as an appendix to it.
2005
- (Woodley, 2005b) ⇒ Mary S. Woodley, Gail Clement, and Pete Winn. (2005). “DCMI Glossary." Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.
- glossary.
- An alphabetized list of terms with definitions often created by an organization to reflect its needs. Normally lacks hierarchical arrangement or cross references. Also known as a term list.
- glossary.