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A glossary also known as an idioticon vocabulary or clavis is an alphabetical list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with the definitions for those terms. Traditionally a glossary appears at the end of a book and includes terms within that book which are either newly introduced uncommon or specialized.

A bilingual glossary is a list of terms in one language which are defined in a second language or glossed by synonyms (or at least near-synonyms) in another language.

In a general sense a glossary contains explanations of concepts relevant to a certain field of study or action. In this sense the term is related to the notion of ontology. Automatic methods have been also provided that transform a glossary into an ontology1 or a computational lexicon.2 Core glossary

A core glossary is a simple glossary or defining dictionary which enables definition of other concepts especially for newcomers to a language or field of study. It contains a small working vocabulary and definitions for important or frequently encountered concepts usually including idioms or metaphors useful in a culture. In computer science a core glossary is a prerequisite to a core ontology. An example of this is seen in SUMO. Searching glossaries on the web

The search engine Google provided a service to only search web pages belonging to a glossary therefore providing access to a kind of compound glossary of glossary entries found on the web.34 Automatic extraction of glossaries

Computational approaches to the automated extraction of glossaries from corpora5 or the Web67 have been developed in the recent years. These methods typically start from domain terminology and extract one or more glosses for each term of interest. Glosses can then be analyzed to extract hypernyms of the defined term and other lexical and semantic relations. See also Terminology extraction References R. Navigli P. Velardi. From Glossaries to Ontologies: Extracting Semantic Structure from Textual Definitions Ontology Learning and Population: Bridging the Gap between Text and Knowledge (P. Buitelaar and P. Cimiano Eds.) Series information for Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications IOS Press 2008 pp. 71-87. R. Navigli. Using Cycles and Quasi-Cycles to Disambiguate Dictionary Glosses Proc. of 12th Conference of the European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2009) Athens Greece March 30-April 3rd 2009 pp. 594-602. Google's Gaggle of New Goodies. Chris Sherman. Search Engine Watch. 22 May 2002. Google calls in the 'language police'. Jonathan Duffy. BBC News. 20 June 2003. J. Klavans and S. Muresan. Evaluation of the Definder System for Fully Automatic Glossary Construction. In Proc. of American Medical Informatics Association Symp. 2001 pp. 324328. A. Fujii T. Ishikawa. Utilizing the World Wide Web as an Encyclopedia: Extracting Term Descriptions from Semi-Structured Texts. In Proc. 38th Ann. Meeting Assoc. for Computational Linguistics 2000 pp. 488495. P. Velardi R. Navigli P. D'Amadio. Mining the Web to Create Specialized Glossaries IEEE Intelligent Systems 23(5) IEEE Press 2008 pp. 18-25. External links Look up glossary in Wiktionary the free dictionary. Introduction to GlossML This article presents Glossary Markup Language (GlossML) an open XML vocabulary specially designed to facilitate the exchange of glossaries. The Glossarist - Large list of glossaries The TAO of Topic Maps Babel Linguistics Glossaries Selected Multilingual Glossaries by Industry v d eLexicography Types of reference works Dictionary  Glossary  Lexicon  Thesaurus Types of dictionaries Bilingual  Biographical  Conceptual  Defining  Electronic  Encyclopedic  Language for specific purposes dictionary  Machine-readable  Maximizing  Medical  Minimizing  Monolingual learner's  Multi-field  Phonetic  Picture  Reverse  Rhyming  Rime  Single-field  Specialized  Sub-field  Visual Lexicographic projects Lexigraf  WordNet Other List of lexicographers  List of online dictionaries v d eLexicology Major terms Lexicon  Idiolect  Word  Lexis  Lexical unit Elements Morpheme  Grapheme  Glyphs  Phoneme  Sememe  Seme  Lexeme  Lemma  Meronymy  Chereme Semantic relations Holonymy  Hyponymy  Troponymy  Idiom  Synonym  Antonymy  Lexical semantics  Semantic net Fonctions Function word  Headword Fields Morphology  Controlled vocabulary  English lexicology and lexicography  Lexicographic error  Lexicographic information cost  Linguistic prescription  Specialised lexicography  International scientific vocabulary