KWIC
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Etymology
[edit]Coined by IBM research engineer Hans Peter Luhn.
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “deliberately homophonous with quick?”)
Noun
[edit]KWIC (plural KWICs)
- (linguistics) 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.
Further reading
[edit]Key Word in Context on Wikipedia.Wikipedia