Glossary of Terms
abbreviation ablative abstraction accusative acronym adaptation adjective adjective phrase adverb affix agreement algorithm alias alias (Chinese) anagram analysis animate anthroponymy approximative article artificial intelligence association attribute attributive authority system blending borrowing calendar calendar date Cardinal cardinal number case category category symbol character string character transform set Chinese-Japanese-Korean date phrase chu (the word) civil clan name classifier clerical name combining form comma common pedigree administration system comparative adjective compass point compound given name compound surname connector contextual resource selector co-occurrence restriction corpus cryptonym culture data date administration system date name phrase date piece date string dative day character day character (Korean) day of month day of week day-of-week name day of year day phrase decade declension delimiter knowledge base demographic derivation determiner deviant dialect variation diminutive direction division domain name double date dynasty character dynasty name dynasty phrase ecclesiastical elaboration emperor name engine epithet era name eurotypic evolution family name famous name farm name feast day name feminine file field final cycle character formula forward slash French Republican Calendar full form gazetteer gender genitive generational name geographic given name given name phrase given name piece GRAMMAR “great” (the word for) grouping principle Henry code hagionym heuristic method Hindi-Arabic digit honorific abstraction honorific attribution honorific title phrase horizontal human hyphen hypocorism identifier identifying item increase distance increase elevation index inflection information field initial cycle character initials intercalary month character interpreter interpretive form inverted locality phrase Jaro string comparator Julian day number jurisdiction kinship term Latin surname Levenstein metric LEXICON locality locality administration system locality name locality name group locality name hierarchy locality name phrase locality phrase locality type locative maiden name married name masculine merotype metaphoric metonymic military name misreading misspelling model (mathematical) modified NYSIIS code monotypic month character month character (Korean) month name month phrase morpheme name name administration system name code name group name piece name prefix name string namesake native type native type phrase neuter nickname nobiliary nominative notable name numeric character numeric character phrase numeric name expression NYSIIS code oblique case form occupation name official name onomastics ordinal phrase paradigm parameter parser particle patronymic personal name personal name phrase Phondex code phrase phrase structure place-name plugable political position possessive posthumous alias postnominal initials postpositive title phrase precision preposition prepositive prepositive title phrase preprocessor procope proper noun PS-RULE qualifier quantifier query record rank ranking constant recall record regnal year reign name relative relative frequency relative position representative Republican Calendar complementary day Republican Calendar month name Republican Calendar weekday name Republican Calendar year (an) respelling reversed J-shaped revival Revolution Roman numeral Russell Soundex code saint name season name semantic resource separator shortening similarity function singletons sinotypic soldier name SS-RULE standard standard name phrase standardization process stem isolate surname surname phrase surname piece syncope terminal symbol title token tokenizer toponym transliteration truncation type typo typical usage user input validity variant vertical vocabulary item vocative written language year character year character (Korean) year name year phrase

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