Computational lexicography

Dafydd Gibbon

19 July 1997 (Version: November 19, 1998 )

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• Lexicography
  • Lexicography, lexicology, lexicon theory
  • Requirements for lexicon building
• Lexical structure and lexical signs
  • Toward an integrated lexical sign model
  • Lexical properties and relations
    • ISA relations
    • PARTOF relations
  • Words and other lexical (and non-lexical) ranks
• Lexical representation
  • Representation and method space
  • Lexica as theories of minimal language objects
  • Lexical theory and lexical practice
  • Properties of a lexical knowledge representation language
  • Lexicographic database representation
  • A conventional database record structure
  • Detailed microstructure organisation
• Steps in practical lexicography
  • Lexicography with UNIX tools
  • Text normalisation
  • Tokenisation
  • Wordlist extraction
  • Lemmatisation
  • Special lexica: the case of dynamic concordances
• Summary and Prospects
  • Hyperlexica
  • Lexicon upscaling in speech technology
  • Finite state technologies
  • Data-driven lexicon development
• References