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Conlon, Sumali Pin-Ngern; And Others – Information Processing and Management, 1993
Important characteristics of lexical databases and their applications in information retrieval and natural language processing are explained. An ongoing project using various machine-readable sources to build a lexical database is described, and detailed designs of individual entries with examples are included. (Contains 66 references.) (EAM)
Descriptors: Business Correspondence, Database Design, Databases, Dictionaries
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Damerau, Fred J. – Information Processing and Management, 1993
Examines the use of various statistical techniques for generating domain-oriented multiword vocabulary terms for natural language database systems. Conclusions show the vocabulary clustering effect should be considered when making significance calculations and that a simple ratio of subject matter relative frequency to total sample relative…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Cluster Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Database Design