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A Guide to Practical Online Lexicography provides a step-by-step course on digital lexicography, discussing state-of-the-art theoretical lexicography and offering a guide to practical lexicography, with a focus on monolingual online dictionaries.
Dictionaries today need to be designed and made for online environments, use up-to-date technologies in all aspects of lexicography, and have adequate business models in place for financing them. This book:
- Covers lexicographic data and categories of existing online dictionaries, and shows how to plan, analyse, and store data
- Discusses the relationship between technology, dictionary users and dictionary makers, lexicographic developments, and economic costs
- Provides an in-depth case study of designing and making the Diccionario Digital del Español (DIDES), an online dictionary of Spanish edited by the author
- Includes further reading recommendations, practical activities, and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter
Drawing on materials developed by the author from his experience of over 20 years of lecturing in universities and institutions globally, this is a practical go-to guide to online lexicography for students of lexicography, e-lexicographers and researchers.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Symbols
List of Figures
List of Tables
Introduction
Chapter 1: e-Lexicography: Its Nature, Definition, and Relevant Characteristics
Chapter 2: The pre-Lexicography Stage: Planning the Budget of the Project and its User Profile
Chapter 3: The pre-Lexicography Stage: Lexicographic Evidence
Chapter 4: Methods and Resources for Writing Lexicographic Data
Chapter 5: Lexicography Comes into Contact with Linguistics: Selecting Words, Signs and Senses
Chapter 6: Auxiliary Lexicographic Data Types: Describing Grammar and Sense Relationships
Chapter 7: Eliminating the User Burden: Principles and Practice
Chapter 8: Lexicography Comes into Contact with Information Science
Chapter 9: Lexicography Comes into Contact with Natural Language Processing: Working with Large Language Models
Reference List
Index
About the author
Pedro A. Fuertes-Olivera is Full Professor at the University of Valladolid, Spain, Extraordinary Professor at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, and Member of the Centre of Excellence in Language Technology (Ordbogen A/S, Denmark). He is the editor and chief lexicographer of the
Diccionario Digital del Español (DIDES) and edited
The Routledge Handbook of Lexicography (2017).
Summary
A Guide to Practical Online Lexicography provides a step-by-step course on digital lexicography, discussing state of art of theoretical lexicography and offering a guide to practical lexicography, with a focus on monolingual online dictionaries.
