The phrase "authority database" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to information management, data organization, or library sciences, where a database is used to maintain authoritative records or references.
Example: "The library's authority database ensures that all cataloged entries are consistent and accurate."
Alternatives: "authoritative database" or "reference database".
The observation is documented through hard evidence of photographs and local authority database and information accessible to public.
We describe an entity detection and resolution system called Newton that is being used to identify company names in Reuters news articles and ground the mention text to a company authority database.
This separation between markup and authority database should be considered best practice as it reduces complexity.
In a next step, by using the (freely available) Dharma Drum person authority database (http://authority.ddbc.edu.tw/person/) further queries can answer which persons were mentioned most frequently.
Besides those, another 15 gazetteers were digitized with added punctuation and sophisticated, manual markup that identifies and disambiguates names and dates and links them to an authority database.
Five human reporters will use open government and local authority databases and story templates to automate stories about health, crime, employment and other subjects.
Names and dates were encoded with XML/TEI and associated with authority databases.
The KEY attributes on the
KEY attributes link the names to authority databases (http://authority.ddbc.edu.tw/) that were created at Dharma Drum in the process of this and other projects.
Certain distinctions that in NLP are usually implemented in the tagging itself, can be outsourced to the authority databases, for instance whether a person is considered historical or fictional, or a location is a city or a building (cf. Xiong et al. 2013).
