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Dictionaries and hypertext

Information structure:

Key type Macrostructure Microstructure
Semasiological:
Glossary Word Alphabetic list word-gloss pair
Stem
Idiom
Reversed index Gloss Alphabetic list gloss-word pair
(finderlist)
Dictionary Word Alphabetic list entry vector
Onomasiological:
Thesaurus Word a) Concept taxonomy co-hyponym set
b) Alphabetic index word-category pair
Encyclopaedia Word Alphabetic list article


Document structure:

Macrostructure Microstructure
Glossary table, matrix row
Reversed index table, matrix row
Dictionary table, matrix row
Encyclopaedia list text, images
Thesaurus a) tree sets, relations
b) list word-page pair


Presentation structure (hypertext split):

Macrostructure Microstructure
Glossary 1 file per initial table
Reversed index 1 file pro initial table
Dictionary 1 file per initial complex table
Encyclopaedia 1 file per word text, images
Thesaurus linked file tree sets, relations
1 file per initial word-anchor table


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Dafydd Gibbon, Sat Oct 17 18:58:17 CEST 1998