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Fawcett, Heather – Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication, 1993
Describes the conversion of the 22,000-page Oxford English Dictionary to an electronic version incorporating a modified Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) syntax. Explains that the database designers chose structured markup because it supports users' data searching needs, allows textual components to be extracted or modified, and allows…
Descriptors: Database Design, Databases, Dictionaries, Online Systems
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Sinclair, J. M.; Kirby, D. M. – World Englishes, 1990
Presents a progress report of the Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary project; discusses the corpus; and presents the historical, theoretical, and methodological bases for the project. Observations are presented on the wider implications of the COBUILD project. Contains 30 references. (GLR)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Database Design, Dictionaries, Grammar
Yokoi, Toshio – International Forum on Information and Documentation, 1995
Reports on the use of an electronic dictionary to research and develop a large-scale language database that will help computers process and understand natural languages, and will greatly contribute to future developments in information science. Also discusses the need for and uses of linguistic and world knowledge databases. (JMV)
Descriptors: Database Design, Dictionaries, Futures (of Society), Information Science
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Venezky, Richard L. – Computers and the Humanities, 1988
Discusses the development of the "Dictionary of Old English," a database of approximately three million running words. Examines how technological advancements have changed the design process since it began in 1970, stating that error checking and protection of the database against accidental intrusion have remained as key issues. (GEA)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Database Design, Databases, Dictionaries
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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