ECHOExploratory Compendium of Humanity Online

FOLDOC Computing Dictionary Network

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A Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC) dataset of 13,356 nodes and 120,238 edges, collected by Denis Howe. Each record contains directed: True, weighted: True. Directed network of computing terms linked by cross-references in the FOLDOC dictionary.. Suitable for knowledge network analysis, dictionary network structure, NLP.

#Computing term#Cross reference#Dictionary#Foldoc

Cite this dataset at foldoc.echo.directory

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The full graph has 13,356 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

13.4K
Nodes
120.2K
Edges
6.74e-04
Density
1
Components
0.1261
Assortativity
47.9%
Reciprocity
0
Bridges
Most central nodes
124040.05391
16450.0295
124600.02905
56050.02868
60270.02741
85750.02696
95580.02516
78110.01939
113190.01857
460.01805
Content metrics

120,238 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

weightμ 1.041 ± 0.27
min 1max 15

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
foldoc
Authors
Batagelj, V.; Mrvar, A.; Zaversnik, Matjaz
Year
2002
Source paper
Network analysis of texts
License
CC BY-SA 2.0 Germany (as stated by KONECT) (LicenseRef-CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE)
Records
13,356
Nodes
13,356
Edges
120,238 (directed)
Nodes are
computing term
Edges are
cross-reference
Attributes
nodes have no attributes; edges have attributes
Languages
en
Collected
2010 (2010s)
Tasks
From the graph: link prediction, community detection

Provenance

Originally published at
https://konect.cc/networks/foldoc/ unverified
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 352.0 KB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

How to cite

BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@misc{batagelj2002,
  title  = {Network analysis of texts},
  author = {Batagelj, V. and Mrvar, A. and Zaversnik, Matjaz},
  year   = {2002},
  note   = {In Language Technologies, pages 143–148, 2002.}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Batagelj, V., Mrvar, A., & Zaversnik, M. (2002). FOLDOC Computing Dictionary Network [Data set]. https://foldoc.echo.directory/

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Batagelj, V., et al. FOLDOC Computing Dictionary Network. 2002, foldoc.echo.directory/.

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