Indexing the etymological lexicographic systems

Database Systems for Lexicographic Work

At the Institute o f Lexicography of the University of Iceland work revolves around very large collections of data in computers. There are mainly two types of databases which are kept in computer storage. The first one is a relatively simple database containing the whole vo­ cabulary o f the main collection o f the Institute, along with the age, number o f citation, word class, word type, and o...

Etymological Wordnet: Tracing The History of Words

Research on the history of words has led to remarkable insights about language and also about the history of human civilization more generally. This paper presents the Etymological Wordnet, the first database that aims at making word origin information available as a large, machine-readable network of words in many languages. The information in this resource is obtained from Wiktionary. Extract...

Reverse Lexicographic and Lexicographic Shifting

A short new proof of the fact that all shifted complexes are fixed by reverse lexicographic shifting is given. A notion of lexicographic shifting, ∆lex — an operation that transforms a monomial ideal of S = k[xi : i ∈ N] that is finitely generated in each degree into a squarefree strongly stable ideal — is defined and studied. It is proved that (in contrast to the reverse lexicographic case) a ...

Minimum Description Length Modeling of Etymological Data

The lexicographic covering

In this paper, we describe a general method for building coverings, that we call lexicographic covering. The name comes from the fact that the scheme although more general than that is particularly fitted to the case where the transitions of an automaton are given an ordering at each state and thus the computations in the automaton may be lexicographic ordered. The lexicographic covering allows...