SHORTENING THE OED - EXPERIENCE WITH A GRAMMAR-DEFINED DATABASE

被引：6

作者：

BLAKE, GE

BRAY, T

TOMPA, FWM

机构：

[1] Centre for the New Oxford English Dictionary and Text Research, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario

[2] Open Text Corp., Waterloo Town Square, Waterloo, Ontario

来源：

ACM TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION SYSTEMS | 1992年 / 10卷 / 03期

关键词：

DESIGN; HUMAN FACTORS; LANGUAGES; GRAMMAR DEFINED MODEL; PARSED STRING; TEXT DATABASE;

D O I：

10.1145/146760.146764

中图分类号：

TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];

学科分类号：

0812 ;

摘要：

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

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页码：213 / 232

页数：20