Arabic-L:LING:Lexicographer sought

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Date: 14 Mar 2008
From:Andrew Petusky <petusky at gmail.com>
Subject:Lexicographer sought

I am putting together a grant proposal, under the Dept. of Education's  
International Research and Studies program, to develop a digitized,  
bidirectional dictionary of Egyptian Arabic and English.  I seek a  
lexicographer to assist me on the project.

The proposed project will begin with digitization of Bedawi & Hinds "A  
Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic," a 900+ page dictionary of the Egyptian  
Arabic of Cairo (one way, Arabic-English).  The digitization involves  
significant computer programming and data entry, which will be done by  
other team members.

The method of digitization used will facilitate creating `reverse  
entries,' by which I mean entries created from the English-term  
definitions in the source dictionary, with the corresponding Arabic- 
term entries from the source dictionary now serving as definitions.    
I recognize that this raw database of English terms is far from a  
finished English-Egyptian Arabic dictionary.  I need help from a  
lexicographer, who can help me organize headwords and other related  
tasks on the English-Arabic side.

My need to find someone is time sensitive, as the grant proposal is  
due in early April.

Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,
Andy Petusky

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