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dictionary and information
The many linguistic techniques for reducing the amount of dictionary information that have been proposed all organize the dictionary's contents around prefixes, stems, suffixes, etc..
This approach requires that: ( 1 ) each text word be separated into smaller elements to establish a correspondence between the occurrence and dictionary entries, and ( 2 ) the information retrieved from several entries in the dictionary be synthesized into a description of the particular word.
The logical scheme used to accomplish the former influences the placement of information in the dictionary file.
We propose a method for selecting only dictionary information required by the text being translated and a means for passing the information directly to the occurrences in text.
Finally, information is retrieved from the dictionary as required by stages of the translation process -- the grammatical description for sentence-structure determination, equivalent-choice information for semantic analysis, and target-language equivalents for output construction.
Also, the dictionary is divided into at least two parts: the list of dictionary forms and the file of information that pertains to these forms.
This initiates the second step of glossary lookup -- connecting the information cell of forms in the text-form list to dictionary forms.
Each time a dictionary form matches a text form, the information cell of the matching text form is saved.
These two pieces of information for each dictionary form that is matched by a text form constitute the table of dictionary usage.
If cell Af is not an information cell we conclude that the i-th dictionary form is not in the text list.
The final step merely uses the table of dictionary usage to select the dictionary information that pertains to each form matched in the text-form list, and uses the list of information cells recorded in text order to attach the appropriate information to each occurrence in text.
A description of this process will serve to illustrate how any type of information can be retrieved from the dictionary and attached to each text occurrence.
( The address of the information cell is also supplied by the table of dictionary usage.
The only requirements on dictionary information made by the text-lookup operation are that each form represented by the dictionary be available for lookup in the text-form list and that information for each form be available in a sequence identical with the sequence of the forms.

dictionary and about
The latter is useful for modifying information about some or all forms of a word, hence reducing the work required to improve dictionary contents.
Although the various Baltic tribes were mentioned by ancient historians as early as 98 B. C., the first attestation of a Baltic language was in about 1350, with the creation of the Elbing Prussian Vocabulary, a German to Prussian translation dictionary.
Generally speaking, unlike dictionary entries, which focus on linguistic information about words, encyclopedia articles focus on factual information to cover the thing or concept for which the article name stands.
At about 1, 200 pages, its scope can be considered as more that of an encyclopedic dictionary than a true encyclopedia.
The ACE had an 8 KB ROM containing the Forth kernel and operating system, and the predefined dictionary of Forth words in about 5KB.
* Easton Bible dictionary about Japheth
The next section of the Lincos dictionary establishes vocabulary for describing time, introducing means for measuring durations, referring to moments in time, and talking about past and future events.
In the late 1870s, Furnivall and Murray met with several publishers about publishing the dictionary.
In 1850, in the preface to his Kashubian-Russian dictionary, Florian Ceynowa wrote about the language of Baltic Slavic peoples:
One dictionary definition is " a funny movie, play, or television program about a love story that ends happily ".
Axel Schuessler's etymological dictionary presents two possibilities for the tonal morphology of dào 道 " road ; way ; method " < Middle Chinese dâu < sup > B </ sup > < Old Chinese * lûʔ and dào 道 or 導 " to go along ; bring along ; conduct ; explain ; talk about " < Middle dâu < sup > C </ sup > < Old * lûh.
This little book was the first dictionary of any Indian tongue in the English language and fed the great hunger of the English about the Native Americans.
Bionics entered the Webster dictionary in 1960 as " a science concerned with the application of data about the functioning of biological systems to the solution of engineering problems ".
"' Wishful Thinking ' is a new lexicon, a dictionary for the restless believer, for the doubter, for anyone who wants to redefine or define more concretely those words that have become an integral part of our daily language — words that we use about God, the universe and, last but never least, humankind.
Although Creel cautioned about the complications of determining which early Chinese exonyms were derogatory, the first character dictionary, Xu Shen's ( 121 CE ) Shuowen Jiezi, provides invaluable data about Han Dynasty usage.
* The American Language, a dictionary about American English.
While such a collection of words might appear to violate the " not from any dictionary " rule, the security is based entirely on the large number of possible ways to choose from the list of words and not from any secrecy about the words themselves.
As such, Susning was an encyclopedia, a dictionary, and a discussion forum about any concept of interest to its users.
The Lewis & Short dictionary expresses the same view, giving the D. A. M author's date as about 420.
Datenschlag was founded in 1996 to collect and provide as much information about sadomasochism as possible — as an offspring of that effort, it has compiled the world's largest bibliography, one of the most extensive history and a dictionary of German BDSM terms.
In his paper Computational capacity of the universe, Seth Lloyd points out that if every particle in the universe could be used as part of a huge computer, it could store only about 10 < sup > 90 </ sup > bits, less than one millionth of the size such a dictionary would require.
In about 1803, he began studying Sanskrit, though he possessed no grammar or dictionary, and succeeded in obtaining sufficient knowledge of the language to be able to compose poetry in it.
Random Entry Idea Generating Tool: The thinker chooses an object at random, or a noun from a dictionary, and associate that with the area they are thinking about.

dictionary and form
The dictionary is a form dictionary, at least in the sense that complete forms are used as the basis for matching text occurrences with dictionary entries.
Each form represented by the dictionary is looked up in the text-form list.
If each text form is marked when matched with a dictionary form, the text forms not contained in the dictionary can be identified when all dictionary forms have been read.
Each dictionary form is looked up in the text-form list by the same method used to look up a new text occurrence in the form list during text reading.
A random address Af that lies within the X-region of memory mentioned earlier is computed from the i-th dictionary form.
The dictionary form is compared with each of these text forms.

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