Resources

• ELEXIS Pathfinder to Computational Lexicography for Developers and Computational Linguists

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  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.

• Mastering oXygen XML Editor for Dictionary Nerds

  EN

  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.

• Lexicography in the Age of Open Data

  EN

  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

  EN

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

• Standards for Representing Lexicographic Data: An Overview

  EN

  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

  EN

  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.

• Lexonomy: Mastering the ELEXIS Dictionary Writing System

  EN

  The course will explore how software tools for dictionary production (so-called dictionary writing systems, or DWS) can be used to streamline and facilitate the structural coherence and quality assurance in a dictionary project by focusing on Lexonomy, a dictionary-writing system developed as part of ELEXIS.

• LEX2: Mastering ELEXIS Corpus Tools for Lexicographic Purposes

  EN

  The course will introduce corpus tools available in ELEXIS and describe various ways in which they can be exploited in lexicographic research and for compiling dictionaries.

• Capturing, Modeling and Transforming Lexical Data: An Introduction

  EN

  This course will introduce the theories, practices, and methods of digitizing legacy dictionaries for research, preservation and online distribution by focusing on the process of converting paper-based dictionaries to electronic format through image capture, text capture, data modeling and data enrichment.

• Introduction to Corpus-Based Lexicographic Practice

  EN

  This course will explore the notion of lexicographic evidence and the limitation of subjective views on language by tracing the changes in lexicographic practice from the extensive use of manually selected citations to the employment of large language corpora.

• Introduction to Dictionary Users

  EN

  The goal of this course is to introduce students to the important role played by dictionary usage research when developing and implementing new dictionaries.

• LEX3: Transforming Legacy Dictionaries using Elexifier

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  This course introduces Elexifier, a cloud-based dictionary service for the conversion of legacy XML and PDF dictionaries into a shared data format based on the ELEXIS Data Model.