16 Glossary of Computer Terms
NB: The idea is to create a detailed glossary in multiple languages to facilitate understanding. Languages: English, German, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, etc. Entries may be supplied by illustration for more efficiency and clarity.
16.1 General Computer Terms
- file manager: a software application that provides a user interface to manage files and directories.
- German: Dateimanager;
- Arabic: مدير الملفات (Mudīr al-mulafāt);
- Persian: مدیر پرونده (Modir-e Parvandeh);
- command line: A text-based interface where users input commands to control the computer.
- German: Befehlszeile;
- Arabic: سطر الأوامر (satr al-awamir);
- Persian: خط فرمان (xatt-e farman);
- path: a reference to a specific location in a file system, typically consisting of a sequence of directories leading to a specific file or directory.
- German: Pfad;
- Arabic: مسار (masar);
- Persian: مسیر (masir);
- folder: a virtual container within a file system used to store and organize files and other folders.
- German: Ordner;
- Arabic: مجلد (majallad);
- Persian: پوشه (poshe);
- file: A digital container for storing data or information on a computer system.
- German: Datei;
- Arabic: ملف (malaf);
- Persian: فایل (file);
16.3 NLP and Linguistics
- natural language processing (NLP): The branch of artificial intelligence focused on enabling computers to understand, interpret, and generate human language.
- German: Natürliche Sprachverarbeitung;
- Arabic: معالجة اللغة الطبيعية (mu‘ālajat al-lughah al-ṭabī‘īyah);
- Persian: پردازش زبان طبیعی (pardazesh-e zabān-e tabi’i);
- ngram: A contiguous sequence of n items (such as letters, words, or symbols) from a given sample of text or speech.
- German: N-Gramm;
- Arabic: ن-جرام (n-gram);
- Persian: ن-گرام (n-gram);
- token: A sequence of characters in text that represents a unit of meaning, often corresponding to a word or a symbol.
- German: Token;
- Arabic: رمز (ramz);
- Persian: توکن (token);
- corpus: A large and structured set of texts, often used for linguistic research and natural language processing tasks.
- German: Korpus;
- Arabic: مدونة (madwana);
- Persian: متننگار (matn-negar);
- corpus linguistics: The study of language based on large collections of “real life” language use stored in corpora.
- German: Korpuslinguistik;
- Arabic: علم اللغة المدوني (’ilm al-lughah al-madwani);
- Persian: زبانشناسی متنی (zabān-shenāsi-ye matni);
- computational linguistics: An interdisciplinary field concerned with the computational aspects of the human language capacity and the application of computational methods to linguistic questions.
- German: Computerlinguistik;
- Arabic: اللسانيات الحاسوبية (al-lisāniyāt al-ḥāsūbīyah);
- Persian: زبانشناسی محاسباتی (zabān-shenāsi-ye moḥāsebatī);