Textbase

A Textbase is a Database that contains a Corpus of Text Documnents.

• Example(s):
  • MEDLINE.
• See: Lexicographer.

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References

• http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/textbase
  • (computing) a database containing a corpus of text for use by lexicographers etc

2006

• (Ohta et al., 2006) ⇒ Tomoko Ohta, Katsuya Masuda, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Takashi Ninomiya, and Jun'ichi Tsujii. (2006). “Semantic Retrieval for the Accurate Identification of Relational Concepts in Massive Textbases.” In: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2006). doi:10.3115/1220175.1220303
  • MEDLINE contains approximately 15 million references to journal articles in life sciences, and its size is rapidly increasing, at a rate of more than 10% yearly (National Library of Medicine, 2005). Researchers would like to be able to search this huge textbase for...

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