Lexicography

Notes from Electronic Lexicography by Sylviane Granger, Magali Paquot

Introduction: Electronic lexicography - from challenge to opportunity

• The first lexical database was Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (1978)
• Six innovations of digital lexicography
  • corpus integration
    • as upstream - data to be sourced
    • as downstream - data to be used
    • "no serious compiler would undertake a large dictionary project nowadays without one"
  • more and better data
  • efficiency of access
  • customization
    • adaptable; involve manual customization by the user
    • adaptive; adapt automatically to the user (based on the historical usage data)
  • hybridization
  • user input

Resources

• WordNet, English Lexical DB
• Chinese lexical database (CLD)
• CJKI Lexical DB
• Buddhism
  • Dictionary of buddhism terms: A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms (mahajana.net)