A Good Index, Prerequisite for Easy Access of Information Stored in a Dictionary

Michael Zock

2006

Abstract

A good dictionary contains not only many entries and a lot of information concerning each one of them, but also adequate means to reveal the stored information. Information access depends crucially on the quality of the index(es). I will present here some ideas of how a dictionary could be enhanced to support a speaker/writer to find the word s/he is looking for. To this end I suggest to add to an existing electronic resource an index based on the notion of association.

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Zock M. (2006). A Good Index, Prerequisite for Easy Access of Information Stored in a Dictionary . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science - Volume 1: NLUCS, (ICEIS 2006) ISBN 978-972-8865-50-4, pages 37-46. DOI: 10.5220/0002473400370046


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@conference{nlucs06,
author={Michael Zock},
title={A Good Index, Prerequisite for Easy Access of Information Stored in a Dictionary},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science - Volume 1: NLUCS, (ICEIS 2006)},
year={2006},
pages={37-46},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002473400370046},
isbn={978-972-8865-50-4},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science - Volume 1: NLUCS, (ICEIS 2006)
TI - A Good Index, Prerequisite for Easy Access of Information Stored in a Dictionary
SN - 978-972-8865-50-4
AU - Zock M.
PY - 2006
SP - 37
EP - 46
DO - 10.5220/0002473400370046