Mining the Web to create specialized glossaries

A step in establishing a Web community's knowledge domain involves collecting a glossary of domain-relevant terms that constitute the linguistic surface manifestation of domain concepts. TermExtractor and GlossExtractor are two two Web-mining-based applications that support glossary building by exploiting the Web's evolving nature to allow continuous updating of an emerging community's vocabulary. These tools acquire a glossary's two basic components, such as terms and definitions where the terms are harvested from domain text corpora and the definitions are extracted from different types of Web pages