Lexicography

Resources

• Automating the Process of Dictionary Creation

  Building upon the material covered in LEX2: Mastering ELEXIS Corpus Tools for Lexicographic Purposes and Lexonomy: Mastering the ELEXIS Dictionary Writing System, this course will focus specifically on the changes in dictionary production after 2000 and the increasing importance of automation and post-editing in lexicography.

• LEX3: Publishing Legacy Dictionaries with Publex

  This course introduces the legacy dictionary viewer Publex, a generic, modular dictionary publication tool for retrodigitized dictionaries.

• Greek, Latin, Classics and the Need for a Global Philology

  In this lecture from the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage (ADCH-CH), Professor Crane discusses the need for a global philology. Combining classical philology and computer science, Crane aims to apply computer-based methods to the study of human cultural development. He discusses the necessity for project oriented, research, reusable code and infrastructures which support it.

• ELEXIS Pathfinder to Computational Lexicography for Developers and Computational Linguists

  This learning resource provides software developers and computational linguists with an overview of the typical  computational processing tasks and software tools in the lexicographic workflow. The resource introduces the most widely used custom developed tools for corpus-based lexicography as well as their functionality.

• Transforming Lexical Data: XSLT for Dictionary Nerds

  The course builds upon Extracting Lexical Data: XPath for Dictionary Nerds and introduces the basics of XSL Transformations (XSLT), a standard language for transforming XML documents.

• Mastering oXygen XML Editor for Dictionary Nerds

  This course will help users learn how to use oXygen XML, a versatile, professional-grade XML editor to edit, validate, query and transform lexicographic data.

• Mastering LEX1: The Dictionary Matrix

  This course will introduce the concept and the ELEXIS implementation of the dictionary matrix, a universal repository of linked senses, and other types of lexical information found in existing lexicographic resources.

• Lexicography in the Age of Open Data

  This course explores the principles of open access, open data, FAIR principles and open science as they apply to lexicography including the specific challenges posed by intellectual property rights and copyright issues in the context of lexicographic work.

• Modeling Dictionaries in OntoLex-Lemon

  This course describes the OntoLex-Lemon model, a recent standard for the representation of lexical information on the Web as linked data.

• Modeling Dictionaries in TEI Lex-0

  The course will focus on modeling dictionaries using TEI Lex-0, a subset of the community standard TEI (Text Encoding Initiative).

• Standards for Representing Lexicographic Data: An Overview

  This course focuses on the importance of standards to facilitate the cooperation among lexicographers in a multilingual and multicultural context.

• CLARIN Tools and Resources for Lexicographic Work

  This course will present an overview of resources available from CLARIN that may be useful for the lexicographer; we refer to  lexical datasets but also to textual resources such as corpora, as well as tools.