Issues to Consider When Building a Dictionary of Concepts
Goal: Unique concepts of value to dictionary users
Process for building a good dictionary is not trivial
- Important to choose the right approach
- Implementing the approach is challenging
Identifying Concepts & Naming them can be difficult
- Concepts are identified and names are assigned for many reasons
- Names are not unique, they form equivalence classes
- How close is “good enough” in order to identify a unique concept and assign a name?
- Names are often composed from other names, plus adjectives
Capturing unambiguous, concise, useful concepts is a continuing process