recovery
retrieval | the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost) |
| language lesson | a period of instruction learning a language |
| language teaching | teaching people to speak and understand a foreign language |
| database management | creation and maintenance of a database |
language area
language zone | a large cortical area (in the left hemisphere in most people) containing all the centers associated with language |
language
speech | the mental faculty or power of vocal communication, language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals |
| language barrier | barrier to communication resulting from speaking different languages |
| language learning | learning to use a language |
| retrieval | the cognitive operation of accessing information in memory, my retrieval of people's names is very poor |
linguistic process
language | the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication, he didn't have the language to express his feelings |
| language requirement | a requirement that a student know certain languages |
natural language processing
NLP
human language technology | the branch of information science that deals with natural language information |
language
linguistic communication | a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols, he taught foreign languages, the language introduced is standard throughout the text, the speed with which a program can be executed depends on the language in which it is written |
| dead language | a language that is no longer learned as a native language |
| source language | a language that is to be translated into another language |
| object language target language | the language into which a text written in another language is to be translated |
language unit
linguistic unit | one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed |
terminology
nomenclature
language | a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline, legal terminology, biological nomenclature, the language of sociology |
written communication
written language
black and white | communication by means of written symbols (either printed or handwritten) |
machine code
machine language | a set of instructions coded so that the computer can use it directly without further translation |
| authoring language | software that can be used to develop interactive computer programs without the technically demanding task of computer programming |
natural language processor
natural language processing application | an application program that deals with natural language text |
electronic database
on-line database
computer database
electronic information service | (computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers |
database management system
DBMS | a software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database |
| relational database management system | a database management system designed to manage a relational database |
| object-oriented database management system | a database management system designed to manage an object-oriented database |
| database | an organized body of related information |
| relational database | a database in which relations between information items are explicitly specified as accessible attributes, in a relational database the data are organized as a number of differently sized tables |
Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System
MEDLARS | relational database of the United States National Library of Medicine for the storage and retrieval of bibliographical information concerning the biomedical literature |
| object-oriented database | a database in which the operations carried out on information items (data objects) are considered part of their definition |
| lexical database | a database of information about words |
| markup language | a set of symbols and rules for their use when doing a markup of a document |
standard generalized markup language
SGML | (computer science) a standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents, a set of rules for using whatever markup vocabulary is adopted |
hypertext markup language
hypertext mark-up language
HTML | a set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents |
sign language
signing | language expressed by visible hand gestures |
ASL
American sign language | the sign language used in the United States |
| body language | communication via the movements or attitudes of the body |
| artificial language | a language that is deliberately created for a specific purpose |
programming language
programing language | (computer science) a language designed for programming computers |
| algebraic language | an algorithmic language having statements that resemble algebraic expressions |
| algorithmic language | an artificial language designed to express algorithms |
application-oriented language
problem-oriented language | a language whose statements resemble terminology of the user |
| assembly language | a low-level programing language, close approximation to machine language |
command language
query language
search language | a source language consisting of procedural operators that invoke functions to be executed |
computer language
computer-oriented language
machine language machine-oriented language | a programming language designed for use on a specific class of computers |
| high-level language | a problem-oriented language requiring little knowledge of the computer on which it will be run |
| jobontrol language | a problem-oriented language used to describe job requirements to an operating system |
| multidimensional language | a programming language whose expressions are assembled in more than one dimension |
| object language target language | a computer language into which something written in another computer language is to be translated |
object-oriented programming language
object-oriented programing language | (computer science) a programming language that enables the programmer to associate a set of procedures with each type of data structure, C is an object-oriented programming language that is an extension of C |