Lexical Database

AKA: Lexeme Record Inventory, Machine-Readable Dictionary.
Context:
- It can represent a portion of a Lexicon.
- It can include a Lexeme Record Set.
- It can include a Word Form Record Set.
- It can include a Morpheme Record Set.
- It can be based on lexical relations, range from being a Syntactic Lexical Database to being a Semantic Lexical Database.
- It can be queried alphabetically (for languages with orderable Alphabet Characters).
- It can be a member of a Lexical Dataset Repository.
- It can be an English Lexical Database, German Lexical Database, Japanese Lexical Database, Chinese Lexical Database, ...
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Example(s):
- a Thesaurus, if in a Database.
- a Controlled Vocabulary, if in a Database.
- a Glossary, if in a Database.
- a Syntactic Lexical Database, with Lexical Relations/Syntactic Relations (e.g. Part-of-Speech Role, Synsets).
- a Machine-Readable Dictionary, such as Wiktionary.
- a Word Sense Inventory / Word Sense Record Set, such as a WordNet Database.
- a Terminological Database.
- a Semantic Lexical Database, such as ConceptNet DB and FrameNet DB.
- Wiktionary.
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Counter-Example(s):
- Human-Readable Lexical Resource, such as a Human-Readable Dictionary.
See: LMF Lexical Markup Framework, Informal Ontology, Reference Work, Lexical Ontology.

References

(WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=lexical%20database
- S: (n) lexical database (a database of information about words)

(ISO TC37, 2008) ⇒ ISO FDIS 24613:2008 (2008). “Language Resource Management — Lexical markup framework (LMF)." ISO/TC 37/SC 4 N453 (N330 Rev.16).
- 3.29 machine readable dictionary MRD
  - electronic lexical resource designed to be consulted by human beings

(Sarmento et al., 2007) ⇒ Luis Sarmento, Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke, and Eugenio Oliveira. (2007). “"More like these": Growing entity classes from seeds.” In: Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management (CIKM 2007). doi:10.1145/1321440.1321585
- QUOTE:Lexical resources such as thesauri and ontologies form essential ingredients of many intelligent information access applications.