Dictionary writing system

{{Short description|Software for writing and producing a dictionary, glossary, vocabulary, or thesaurus}}

A dictionary writing system (DWS), or dictionary production/publishing system (DPS) is software for writing and producing a dictionary, glossary, vocabulary, or thesaurus. It may include an editor, a database, a web interface for collaborative work, and various management tools.

Resources

  • Butler, Lynnika and Heather van Volkinburg. 2007. [https://web.archive.org/web/20111001123812/http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/June2007/techreviews/butler.html Fieldworks Language Explorer (FLEx).] Language documentation & conservation 1:1.
  • Corris, Miriam, Christopher Manning, Susan Poetsch, and Jane Simpson. 2002. [http://nlp.stanford.edu/pubs/eldic.ps Dictionaries and endangered languages.] In David Bradley and Maya Bradley (eds.), Language endangerment and language maintenance. London: RoutledgeCurzon: 329-347.
  • Coward, David E. and Charles E. Grimes. 1995. [http://www.sil.org/computing/shoebox/MDF_2000.pdf Making dictionaries: a guide to lexicography and the Multi-Dictionary Formatter (Version 1.0).] Waxhaw: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
  • De Schryver, G-M and Joffe, D. 2004. ‘On How Electronic Dictionaries are Really Used’ (see elsewhere in the current Proceedings)
  • Hosken, Martin. 2006. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120326130336/http://lift-standard.googlecode.com/files/lift_10.pdf Lexicon Interchange Format: A description.]
  • Joffe, David and Gilles-Maurice de Schryver. 2004. [http://tshwanedje.com/publications/euralex2004-TL.pdf TshwaneLex – A state-of-the-art dictionary compilation program.] In G. Williams & S. Vessier (eds.). 2004. Proceedings of the eleventh EURALEX international congress, EURALEX 2004, Lorient, France, July 6–10, 2004: 99–104. Lorient: Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines, Université de Bretagne Sud.
  • McNamara, M. 2003. [http://www.xmleurope.com/2003/ ‘Dictionaries for all: XML to Final Product’] in Online Proceedings of XML Europe 2003 Conference & Exposition. Powering the Information Society.

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