different between syntax vs wikification

English

Etymology

From French syntaxe, from Late Latin syntaxis, from Ancient Greek ???????? (súntaxis), from ??? (sún, “together”) + ????? (táxis, “arrangement”), from ????? (táss?, “I arrange”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?n.tæks/
• Homophone: sin tax

Noun

syntax (countable and uncountable, plural syntaxes)

1. A set of rules that govern how words are combined to form phrases and sentences.

   •   The incorporation of a rule of V MOVEMENT into our description of English Syntax turns out to have fundamental theoretical implications for our overall Theory of Grammar: it means that we are no longer able to posit that the syntactic structure of a sentence can be described in terms of a single Phrase-marker representing its S-structure. For, the postulation of a rule of V-MOVEMENT means that we must recognise at least two different levels of structure in our Theory of Grammar — namely, a level of D-structure (formerly known as ‘Deep Structure?) which serves as input to the rule, and a separate level of S-structure which is formed by application of the rule.

2. (computing, countable) The formal rules of formulating the statements of a computer language.
3. (linguistics) The study of the structure of phrases, sentences and language.

Usage notes

The joke plural syntices occasionally occurs in blogs (by false analogy with matrix etc.).

Synonyms

• (grammar): syntaxis

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• grammar
• morphology

Czech

Noun

syntax f

1. (linguistics, computing) syntax

Synonyms

• syntaxe f

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sin.taks/

Noun

syntax f (genitive singular syntaxe, nominative plural syntaxe, genitive plural syntaxí, declension pattern of dla?)

1. syntax (linguistics)

Declension

Derived terms

• syntaktický
• syntakticky

Further reading

• syntax in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Swedish

Noun

syntax c

1. a syntax, a (formal) grammar

Declension

References

• syntax in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

English

Etymology

wiki +? -ification

Noun

wikification (usually uncountable, plural wikifications)

1. The process of adding wiki syntax to text in a wiki platform, or converting HTML to wiki markup.
2. (Wiktionary and WMF jargon) The automated process of adding links to Wikipedia to specific words and phrases in an arbitrary text (e.g. a news article).
   • 2007, Andras Csomai and Rada Mihalcea, “Linking Educational Materials to Encyclopedic Knowledge”, in Rosemary Luckin et al. (editors), Artificial Intelligence in Education, IOS Press, ?ISBN, page 558:

     Given a text or hypertext document, we define “text wikification” as the task of automatically extracting the most important words and phrases in the document (keywords), and identifying for each such keyword the appropriate link to a Wikipedia article with detailed explanatory information about the corresponding keyphrase. ¶ Text wikification is performed in two steps. […]

   • 2009, Ian H. Witten, abstract of the presentation “Semantic Document Processing Using Wikipedia as a Knowledge Base”, in Shlomo Geva et al. (editors), Focused Retrieval and Evaluation (INEX 2009 workshop proceedings), Springer (2010), ?ISBN, page 3:

     This task will introduce the process of “wikification”; that is, automatically and judiciously augmenting a plain-text document with pertinent hyperlinks to Wikipedia articles – as though the document were itself a Wikipedia article. […] Wikification is a useful process in itself, […]

   • 2009–10, Amir Hossein Jadidinejad, Fariborz Mahmoudi, Cross-Language Information Retrieval Using Meta-language Index Construction and Structural Queries, in Multilingual Information Access Evaluation I, page 73:

     3 Query Wikification

     The process of automatically recognizing the topics mentioned in an unstructured text and linking them to the appropriate Wikipedia [6] articles is known as wikification. Two Wikification method[s] have been proposed by now.

Related terms

• to wikify

Translations

French

Etymology

From wikifier +? -ification, borrowed from English wikification.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wi.ki.fi.ka.sj??/

Noun

wikification f (plural wikifications)

1. Wikification.