FOLDOC Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

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FOLDOC
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

Dataset   Foldoc

Description

foldoc.net valued directed network with 13380 vertices and 120700 arcs, value is the multiplicity of arc.

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foldoc.net (ZIP, 517K)

Background

FOLDOC is a searchable dictionary of acronyms, jargon, programming languages, tools, architecture, operating systems, networking, theory, conventions, standards, mathematics, telecoms, electronics, institutions, companies, projects, products, history, in fact anything to do with computing.

The dictionary has been growing since 1985 and now contains over 13000 definitions totalling nearly five megabytes of text. Entries are cross-referenced to each other and to related resources elsewhere on the net.

An arc (X,Y) from term X to term Y exists in the network iff in the FOLDOC dictionary the term Y is used to describe the meaning of term X.

Copyright 1993 by Denis Howe. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify the FOLDOC dictionary under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

Please refer to the dictionary as "The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing,http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe" or similar.

History

• FOLDOC started in 1985 by Denis Howe;
• in 1990 put on FTP, other sources included;
• from 1994 available on the WWW, hundreds of contributors;
• February/June 2002: Foldoc.net transformed in Pajek format and 'cleaned' by V. Batagelj and A. Mrvar.
  

References

• Denis Howe, Editor: FOLDOC (2002): Free on-line dictionary of computing.
• V. Batagelj, A. Mrvar, M. Zavešnik: Network analysis of texts. Language Technologies 2002, Ljubljana, 14 - 15th October 2002, p. 143-148.
• V. Batagelj, A. Mrvar, M. Zavešnik: Network analysis of dictionaries. Language Technologies 2002, Ljubljana, 14 - 15th October 2002, p. 135-142.