A Monument of Lexicography

Lexicography versus

Lexicography and terminography are specialised professions concerned with the compilation and editing of dictionaries. The lexicographer documents the words in the vocabulary of the general language whereas the terminographer documents the terminology of specific subject fields and domains. The terminographer works with a more restricted register than the general lexicographer, but from a holis...

The Art of Lexicography

Monument to the discoveries.

A week ago I was standing with my wife by the River Tagus in Lisbon, next to the Monument to the Discoveries. The monument is at the spot where Vasco da Gama set out to discover the southeast passage from Europe to Asia, past the Cape of Good Hope. Vasco’s discovery marked the beginning of the Portuguese maritime empire. At the furthest tip of Europe, Portugal was perfectly situated to found su...

Towards a Module for Lexicography in OntoLex

Dictionaries are increasingly being transformed into linguistic linked lata (LLD) relying on the lemon and OntoLex models, but this conversion is not always straightforward. For both linked data (LD) based applications to exploit all content provided in dictionaries and lexicographers adopting LD technologies, the original data and structure should be retrievable from the LLD version to prevent...

Lexicography in the

Lexicography has much to contribute to the information and knowledge society. The very essence of lexicography is its capacity to provide quick and easy access to data from which information needed by different types of users in different types of social situations can be retrieved. In this respect, the article discusses the concepts of information and knowledge related to lexicographic theory....