KWIC

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Initialism of keyword in context: a list of phrases obtained by searching a corpus, each containing the node (or word of interest) and its surrounding cotext.

Word forms

KWIC KWICs

Etymology

Coined by IBM research engineer Hans Peter Luhn.

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