Levels of hypertext analysis: the example of hyperlexica

One kind of utilitarian hypertext is the hyperlexicon, i.e. a lexicon whose covert hypertext structure is realised explicitly as an overt hypertext.

The two traditional disciplines converge in computational linguistics:

• lexicology (the scientific study of lexical information) and
• lexicography (the principles and techniques of lexicon construction).

Text structures can be analysed as

1. latent hyperstructures, or
2. manifest hyperstructures.

On this basis, in computational lexicography

• traditional dictionaries structures are a useful starting point for defining latent lexical hyperstructures, and
• manifest lexical hyperstructures can be developed for hyperlexica.

Definition:

A hyperlexicon is a hypertext with the form of a manifest lexical hyperstructure.

See the HyprLex website, for different kinds of hyperconcordance and hyperlexicon.

 
• Types of lexical information structure
• Properties of hyperlexica
• Hyperlexica as complex signs