摘要 |
A computing system has a data storage device ( 4, 5, 6 ) for storing a database consisting of a classified vocabulary of terms. A processor ( 1 ) of the apparatus is arranged to associate each term with one of a number of different categories of data and to associate all terms falling within the same category with a common code identifying a collocation of terms that exemplify that category so that terms in different categories are associated with different codes and can be disambiguated. The processor ( 1 ) is arranged to write, directly or indirectly, a classified vocabulary consisting of the terms together with the associated code onto a computer-readable storage medium (RDD 2 ) or to supply an electrical signal via, for example a MODEM ( 10 ) or a LAN/WAN ( 11 ). The database may be used in classification of documents, spelling checking of documents and refining of keyword search results.
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