Content Designators for Machine-Readable Records: A Working Paper

Machine-Readable Dictionaries

The papers in this panel consider machine-readable dictionaries from several perspectives: research in computational linguistics and computational lexicology, the development of tools for improving accessibility, the design of lexical reference systems for educational purposes, and applications of machine-readable dictionaries in information science contexts. As background and by way of introdu...

Machine-Readable Dictionary Headwords

(5) The idea behind dictionaries for machine processing and that behind dictionaries that people can thumb through are di erent, so we have to be aware that di erent terms are used. It is often best to include in machine dictionaries even terms that are easy for people to understand and to break down into their key elements. For example, :n6HCf (on duty, at work) and F17nKv (the end of the same...

Draft Working Paper on Human Machine Interface

knoWitiary: A Machine Readable Incarnation of Wiktionary

knoWitiary is a resource that presents a reorganized version of Wiktionary’s information in machine readable format. Wiktionary contains a plethora of information about words, including sense definitions, etymology, translations, derived terms and anagrams. Similar work to the one reported here goes one step further than extracting information from Wiktionary: mapping it onto WordNet – NLP comm...

Machine-Readable Privacy Certificates for Services

Privacy-aware processing of personal data on the web of services requires managing a number of issues arising both from the technical and the legal domain. Several approaches have been proposed to matching privacy requirements (on the clients side) and privacy guarantees (on the service provider side). Still, the assurance of effective data protection (when possible) relies on substantial human...