Eckhard Bick - VISL

(2) pointer tree searching technique (d-segment of the prefix lexicon)
2.2.3 Data structures
2.2.3.1 Lexicon organisation
a dactil-
e c a deca-
i deci-
l delta-
m demo-
n dendro-
s des-
u deutero-
ø de-
d i a dia-
s dis-
ø di-
o dodeca-
The electronic lexicon that PALMORF uses, is based on a paper version passive
bilingual Portuguese-Danish dictionary (Bick, 1993, 1995, 1997) I have compiled in
connection with my Masters thesis on lexicography (Bick, 1993), which is where
information can be found about the lexicographic principles applied. The lexicon file
now covers over 45.000 lexemes, 10.000 polylexicals and about 20.000 irregular
inflexion forms. The present lexical content reflects the constant, circular
interactivity of lexicon, parser and corpus. Over four years, every parse has - also -
been a lexicon check.
Much of the information contained in the original dictionary had to be
regularised and adapted for parsing purposes. Thus, many words had to have their
valency spectrum widened for empirical reasons, and throughout the whole lexicon,
a formal semantic classification was introduced, something a human reader of the
paper dictionary would implicitly derive from the list of translation alternatives.
Also, for use with regular inflexion rules, grammatical combinatorial subcategories
(field 4 in table 2) had to be introduced for verbal (and some nominal) stems.
In (1), a number of authentic lexicon entries is listed, and table (2) summarises
the kind of information that can be found in the different fields of a lexicon entry.
(1)
abalável#=##TP######46
abalôo#2oar#######52#
abana-moscas#=####[ô]####57
acapachar-#1##AaiD######412
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