Structuring Lexical Data and Digitising Dictionaries

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-70265-3
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 85, 398 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 748 g

Reihe: Language and Computers

In order to guarantee open access and full searchability, research in historical lexicography and lexicology must follow the same directions as the evolution of the Internet, which has moved from hypertext-based resources to more significative services and products stored and disseminated through databases and, more recently, through knowledge bases. Against this background, this book addresses specific questions like What is involved in the digitisation of linguistic data? What annotation systems can give rise to datasets compatible with knowledge bases? What standards are needed to reach full searchability? What sources and methods can be used to gather the lemmas of a historical dictionary? What determines the obsolescence of lexicographical resources?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Martín Arista, Javier

Ojanguren López, Ana Elvira

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Lexikologie, Lexikographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

List of Tables

1 Grammatical Theory, Language Processing and Databases in Historical Linguistics: New Perspectives

JavierMartín Arista and AnaElvira Ojanguren López

Part1 Lexical Databases and Language Processing in Digital Historical Lexicography

2 String Similarity Measures for Evaluating the Lemmatisation in Old Church Slavonic

Ilia Afanasev and Olga Lyashevskaya

3 Encoding the Specifities of Encyclopedias

Alice Brenon

4 Challenges in the Process of Retro-Digitization of Croatian Grammar Books before Illyrism

Marijana Horvat, Martina Kramaric and Ana Mihaljevic

5 The Evolution of A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose: From a Collection of Citations to a Digital Resource

EllertThor Johannsson

6 Agile Lexicography: Rapid Dictionary Prototyping with R Shiny, with Examples from Projects on Sanskrit and Tibetan

Ligeia Lugli

7 Interface of Old English Dictionaries in Database Format: Toward a Knowledge Base

JavierMartín Arista

8 Bosworth-Toller’s Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online

Ondrej Tichý and Martin Rocek

Part2 Structuring Historical Lexicons for Lexicography and Corpus Analysis

9 The Adjective gesælig in Old English Prose: Towards the Characterization of the Lexical Field of Holiness in Old English

Ondrej Fúsik and Alena Novotná

10 Historical and Genre Labels as a Means of Organizing Semantic Structure of Lexemes in an Explanatory Synchronic Historical Dictionary

Alenka Jelovšek

11 Organizing the Lexicon by Means of Grammatical Behaviour: The Verbal Class of Deprive in Old English

Miguel LacallePalacios

12 On Lemmas and Dilemmas again: Problems in Historical Dialectal Lexicography

Ioanna Manolessou and Georgia Katsouda

13 Structuring the Lexicon of Old English with Syntactic Principles: The Role of Deverbal Nominalisations with Aspectual and Control Verbs

AnaElvira OjangurenLópez

14 Assessing Lexicographic Obsolescence and Historical Frequency Indicators in Word Entries in the OED

A Corpus Study of Historical Adjectival Derivatives

ChrisA. Smith

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Javier Martín Arista is Professor of Old English and Linguistics at the University of La Rioja. He is the principal investigator of a research project in the corpus linguistics and lexicography of Old English with methods of digital humanities, computational linguistics, natural language processing, and artificial intelligence.

Ana Elvira Ojanguren López is Lecturer in English at the University of La Rioja. She earned her doctorate with a thesis dealing with the syntax and semantics of Old English within the framework of Role and Reference Grammar. She has published in several specialised journals, like Journal of Historical Linguistcs, and is the author of the book Predications in competition and the rise of serial verbs in English (Peter Lang, 2024).