Typology of hyperlexica

With the advent of computers, lexicology (the scientific study of lexical information) and lexicography (the principles and techniques of lexicon construction) have been converging.

We can start with a distinction between

1. latent hyperstructures
2. manifest hyperstructures

in texts.

On this basis,

• the structures used in traditional dictionaries can be used as a starting point for defining latent lexical hyperstructures underlying dictionaries, and
• strategies can be defined for developing manifest lexical hyperstructures as a hypertext.

A hyperlexicon is then defined as a hypertext based on a latent or manifest lexical hyperstructure.

A specific case of a terminological hyperlexicon is contained in the EAGLES deliverable EAGLET: ...

 
• Types of lexical information structure
• Static versus dynamic hyperlexica
• Theoretical versus practical hyperlexica
• Knowledge bases, databases, concordances