Conceptionary

• "A database of 'concepts' that links each concect to its various representations in the languages and cultures of mankind. A concept in this database is not (necessarily) a high-level, abstract, understanding of a complex idea"
  Described by Ray Cherry in hand-written notes, during the summer of 2000

• "Concepts - Conceptionary (an index of concepts ie. like a dictionary is for diction)"
  Lecture notes of Bill Abbot - circa 1995: http://www.ausbcomp.com/~bbott/wik/wik.htm

• "A conceptionary, like a dictionary, is useful in learning the meanings of words. Unlike a dictionary, it is designed to make the reader work a little, and to develop associations and a conceptual framework for the subject of the conceptionary. It is not an encyclopaedia, though it has as one function, in new or inter-disciplinary areas, the drawing together and reconciliation of disparate sources. Like Marmite (a yeast extract), it is designed to be nutritious and highly concentrated. Do not be put off by the consequent strong flavour. The aim is to achieve broad coverage of material from areas such as psychology and physics, as well as from speech recognition and synthesis, because such material is highly relevant to speech researchers and often difficult to track down. Historical material is included for the same reasons"
  A description of his own (specialised) conceptionary, by Professor David R. Hill of the University of Calgary, Canada - circa 2001:
  http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~hill/papers/conc/ provides the latest version of the document which, according to the Professor, has a history going back to 1976 when it was entitled "A first order conceptionary to acoustic interaction between men and machines"

Professor David Hill may have been the first to use the word 'conceptionary'. If you know of any earlier (preferably published) use of the word, please let me know.