Glossary

Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.

14 results found in Data.

AAC Corpus (AAC Text Corpus, Augmentative Communication Corpus)
A collection of text produced by or representative of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) device users, used for training and evaluating language models and word prediction systems. AAC c…
Chemical Markup Language (CML)
An XML-based markup language for representing chemical information including molecular structures, reactions, spectra, and other chemical data in a machine-readable format. CML encodes atoms, bonds, a…
Clustering Algorithm (Cluster Analysis, Unsupervised Clustering, K-means, PAM, CLARA)
A clustering algorithm is an unsupervised machine-learning technique that groups similar data points together based on a distance or similarity measure, without needing pre-labelled training data. Com…
Corpus (Language Corpus, Text Corpus, British National Corpus, BNC)
A corpus is a large, structured collection of texts used to train, tune, or evaluate language-processing systems. Representative examples include the British National Corpus (BNC, 100 million words of…
Data Mining (Knowledge Discovery, KDD, Knowledge Discovery in Databases)
Data mining is the computational process of discovering patterns, rules, and relationships in large datasets, drawing on techniques from statistics, machine learning, and database systems. Common task…
Decision Tree (Classification Tree, Regression Tree, C4.5, CART)
A decision tree is a supervised machine-learning model that represents a classification or regression decision as a tree of yes/no tests on input features, with predictions at the leaves. Well-known a…
Entity-Relationship Diagram (ER Diagram, ERD)
A type of relational diagram used in software engineering and database design to model the conceptual structure of a system by representing entities (objects or concepts), their attributes (properties…
Error Profile (Accessibility Error Profile, Violation Profile)
An error profile is a structured summary of the accessibility issues detected on a page, typically represented as a numeric vector with one component per checkpoint or rule — counts of violations, bin…
OLAP (On-line Analytical Processing, Online Analytical Processing, Data Cube)
OLAP (on-line analytical processing) is a class of database technology that organises data into multi-dimensional 'cubes' — for example, sensor-firing counts indexed by room, time zone, day of week, a…
Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
A statistical technique that reduces the dimensionality of data by identifying the principal axes of variation in a dataset. In accessibility and assistive technology contexts, PCA is commonly used in…
Pseudonymization (Pseudonymisation, De-identification)
A privacy technique in which personally identifying fields are replaced with artificial identifiers — typically hashes, tokens, or randomly assigned IDs — so that the data can no longer be attributed …
Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten, GDPR Article 17)
A user right under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (Article 17) to have their personal data deleted by a data controller when certain conditions are met (e.g., data no longer needed, consent…
Trajectory Analysis (Route Analysis, Path Analysis)
The computational study of movement patterns over time and space, typically derived from GPS or other location data. Trajectory analysis involves modelling, comparing, and classifying sequences of spa…
Wrapper (Web Wrapper, Data Wrapper)
In web accessibility and data extraction contexts, a reusable program that maps the visual layout of a web page to its underlying structured dataset by identifying records and fields within the HTML. …