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Structuring Lexical Data and Digitising Dictionaries
Grammatical Theory, Language Processing and Databases in Historical Linguistics
Series: - Language and Computers, Volume: 85
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?
Javier MartÃn 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).
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).
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Grammatical Theory, Language Processing and Databases in Historical Linguistics: New Perspectives
âJavierMartÃn Arista and AnaElvira Ojanguren López
2 String Similarity Measures for Evaluating the Lemmatisation in Old Church Slavonic
âIlia Afanasev and Olga Lyashevskaya
3 Encoding the Specifities of Encyclopedias
âAlice Brenon
4 Challenges in the Process of Retro-Digitization of Croatian Grammar Books before Illyrism
âMarijana Horvat, Martina KramariÄ and Ana MihaljeviÄ
5 The Evolution of A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose: From a Collection of Citations to a Digital Resource
âEllertThor Johannsson
6 Agile Lexicography: Rapid Dictionary Prototyping with R Shiny, with Examples from Projects on Sanskrit and Tibetan
âLigeia Lugli
7 Interface of Old English Dictionaries in Database Format: Toward a Knowledge Base
âJavierMartÃn Arista
8 Bosworth-Tollerâs Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online
âOndÅej Tichý and Martin RoÄek
9 The Adjective gesælig in Old English Prose: Towards the Characterization of the Lexical Field of Holiness in Old English
âOndÅej Fúsik and Alena Novotná
10 Historical and Genre Labels as a Means of Organizing Semantic Structure of Lexemes in an Explanatory Synchronic Historical Dictionary
âAlenka JelovÅ¡ek
11 Organizing the Lexicon by Means of Grammatical Behaviour: The Verbal Class of Deprive in Old English
âMiguel LacallePalacios
12 On Lemmas and Dilemmas again: Problems in Historical Dialectal Lexicography
âIoanna Manolessou and Georgia Katsouda
13 Structuring the Lexicon of Old English with Syntactic Principles: The Role of Deverbal Nominalisations with Aspectual and Control Verbs
âAnaElvira OjangurenLópez
14 Assessing Lexicographic Obsolescence and Historical Frequency Indicators in Word Entries in the OED
A Corpus Study of Historical Adjectival Derivatives
âChrisA. Smith
Index
List of Tables
1 Grammatical Theory, Language Processing and Databases in Historical Linguistics: New Perspectives
âJavierMartÃn 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
âIlia Afanasev and Olga Lyashevskaya
3 Encoding the Specifities of Encyclopedias
âAlice Brenon
4 Challenges in the Process of Retro-Digitization of Croatian Grammar Books before Illyrism
âMarijana Horvat, Martina KramariÄ and Ana MihaljeviÄ
5 The Evolution of A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose: From a Collection of Citations to a Digital Resource
âEllertThor Johannsson
6 Agile Lexicography: Rapid Dictionary Prototyping with R Shiny, with Examples from Projects on Sanskrit and Tibetan
âLigeia Lugli
7 Interface of Old English Dictionaries in Database Format: Toward a Knowledge Base
âJavierMartÃn Arista
8 Bosworth-Tollerâs Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online
âOndÅej Tichý and Martin RoÄek
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
âOndÅej Fúsik and Alena Novotná
10 Historical and Genre Labels as a Means of Organizing Semantic Structure of Lexemes in an Explanatory Synchronic Historical Dictionary
âAlenka JelovÅ¡ek
11 Organizing the Lexicon by Means of Grammatical Behaviour: The Verbal Class of Deprive in Old English
âMiguel LacallePalacios
12 On Lemmas and Dilemmas again: Problems in Historical Dialectal Lexicography
âIoanna Manolessou and Georgia Katsouda
13 Structuring the Lexicon of Old English with Syntactic Principles: The Role of Deverbal Nominalisations with Aspectual and Control Verbs
âAnaElvira OjangurenLópez
14 Assessing Lexicographic Obsolescence and Historical Frequency Indicators in Word Entries in the OED
A Corpus Study of Historical Adjectival Derivatives
âChrisA. Smith
Index
This book is intended for theoretical and applied researchers in the dictionary-making and lexical analysis of historical languages, including post-graduate students, lexicographers and historical linguists. The book is also relevant for interdisciplinary projects involving computing and linguistics, such as natural language processing and digital humanities.