Digital Lexicographic Systems and Traditional Paper Dictionaries (From Traditional Paper Dictionaries to Digital Lexicographic Systems)

From paper to digital

Integrating Paper and Digital Music Information Systems

Traditionally musicians have stored and retrieved music scores using paper-based systems. Many musicians have built up personal libraries of music books, compositions, arrangements and sheet music. The acquisition or creation of documents is straightforward, but the retrieval or modification of scores is hindered by the inflexibility of the paper medium. A digital music library would have a num...

A Lexicographic Approach to Language Policy and Recommen- dations for Future Dictionaries

Language policy prevails at different levels and its formulation typically results in a prescriptive presentation of data. In their dictionaries, lexicographers have to respond to the decisions of language policy makers. In this regard dictionaries can adhere to a strict prescriptive policy by including only the prescribed forms. Dictionaries can also give a descriptive account of language use ...

Traditional and Digital Signage

In this paper we explain how the content of traditional and digital signs heavily depends on the context in which the sign is seen. This is followed by a comparison of the properties of traditional and digital signs, in which we show that digital signs enable us to exploit many proporties that signs have, in particular context adaptivity and indexicality.

Quantitative Comparison of Homonymy in Spanish EuroWordNet and Traditional Dictionaries

A quantitative comparative study of homonymy in four well-known electronic Spanish dictionaries—EuroWordNet and three traditional dictionaries—is presented. It is shown that though structuring of word senses is quite different in all dictionaries under comparison, EuroWordNet differs from the traditional dictionaries much more than these differ from each other. It is also shown that the orderin...