Designing a Lexical Database for a Combined Use of Corpus Annotation and Dictionary Editing

Langer, Gabriele | Troelsgård, Thomas | Kristoffersen, Jette | Konrad, Reiner | Hanke, Thomas | König, Susanne

Volume:: Proceedings of the LREC2016 7th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpus Mining
Venue:: Portorož, Slovenia
Date:: 28 May 2016
Pages:: 143–152
Publisher:: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
License:: CC BY-NC 4.0
sign-lang ID:: 16014

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Projects:: DGS-Korpus project, DTS dictionary project
Languages:: German Sign Language, Danish Sign Language
Editors:: iLex

Abstract

In a combined corpus-dictionary project, you would need one lexical database that could serve as a shared “backbone” for both corpus annotation and dictionary editing, but it is not that easy to define a database structure that applies satisfactorily to both these purposes. In this paper, we will exemplify the problem and present ideas on how to model structures in a lexical database that facilitate corpus annotation as well as dictionary editing. The paper is a joint work between the DGS Corpus Project and the DTS Dictionary Project. The two projects come from opposite sides of the spectrum (one adjusting a lexical database grown from dictionary making for corpus annotating, one building a lexical database in parallel with corpus annotation and editing a corpus-based dictionary), and we will consider requirements and feasible structures for a database that can serve both corpus and dictionary.

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Gabriele Langer, Thomas Troelsgård, Jette Kristoffersen, Reiner Konrad, Thomas Hanke, Susanne König. 2016. Designing a Lexical Database for a Combined Use of Corpus Annotation and Dictionary Editing. In Proceedings of the LREC2016 7th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpus Mining, pages 143–152, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

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@inproceedings{langer:16014:sign-lang:lrec,
  author    = {Langer, Gabriele and Troelsg{\aa}rd, Thomas and Kristoffersen, Jette and Konrad, Reiner and Hanke, Thomas and K{\"o}nig, Susanne},
  title     = {Designing a Lexical Database for a Combined Use of Corpus Annotation and Dictionary Editing},
  pages     = {143--152},
  editor    = {Efthimiou, Eleni and Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita and Hanke, Thomas and Hochgesang, Julie A. and Kristoffersen, Jette and Mesch, Johanna},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the {LREC2016} 7th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpus Mining},
  maintitle = {10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2016)},
  publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
  address   = {Portoro{\v z}, Slovenia},
  day       = {28},
  month     = may,
  year      = {2016},
  language  = {english},
  url       = {https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/16014.pdf}
}