Shortening the OED
| Autor: | Frank Wm. Tompa, Tim Bray, G. Elizabeth Blake |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
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Structure (mathematical logic)
Information retrieval Database Grammar Computer science media_common.quotation_subject Gödel's incompleteness theorems computer.software_genre Data structure General Business Management and Accounting Computer Science Applications Set (abstract data type) Variable (computer science) Order (business) Production (computer science) computer Information Systems media_common |
| Zdroj: | ACM Transactions on Information Systems. 10:213-232 |
| ISSN: | 1558-2868 1046-8188 |
| Popis: | Textual databases with highly variable structure can be usefully described by a grammar-defined model. One example of such a text is the Oxford English Dictionary . This paper describes a first attempt to apply technology based on this model to a real problem. A language called GOEDEL, which is a partial implementation of a set of grammar-defined database operators, was used to extract and alter a subset of the OED in order to assist the editors in their production of The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary . The implementation of the pstring data structure to describe a piece of text and the functions that operate on this pstring are illustrated with some detailed examples. The project was judged a success and the resulting program used in production by the Oxford University Press. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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