31.1262, FYI: Oxford Languages and Prêt-à-Llod’s Cross-Dictionary Annotation Tool

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Subject: 31.1262, FYI:  Oxford Languages and Prêt-à-Llod’s Cross-Dictionary Annotation Tool

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Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2020 15:57:04
From: Oxford Languages Team [Oxford.Languages at oup.com]
Subject: Oxford Languages and Prêt-à-Llod’s Cross-Dictionary Annotation Tool

 
Thu 7 May, 11:00-12:00 BST
Book your place: http://tiny.cc/OxfordLanguages

The Cross-Dictionary Annotation Tool (XD-AT) is a web-based tool developed as
part of the Prêt-à-Llod project (which aims to develop methodologies for
linking language data).

OUP’s contribution explores methodologies for linking dictionaries at the
level of meaning, an area of significant activity in the past decade with the
successful linking of key lexical databases, and which more recently has
turned to dictionary sense-alignment due to the potential benefits. This opens
up the possibility of expanding existing lexicographic content with additional
data from other sources, or creating new bilingual dictionaries by traversing
the network of interlinked senses.

So far, existing dictionary building and annotation tools are mostly focused
on sense-tagging or alignment. However, when aligning senses we can see that
they are not always fully equivalent, yet in some cases one of the senses
extends beyond the meaning conveyed by the others. XD-AT was developed to
assist lexicographers to classify sense alignment distinctions between senses
already aligned. It can also be extended into a general tool for marking up
cross-dictionary mappings at the sense level. 

Join Meritxell Gonzàlez, Language Engineer at Oxford University Press and the
creator of the tool, for a live session where she will cover:

- An overview of XD-AT’s capabilities and potential
- An explanation of the different meaning relationships between linked senses:
perfect-match, narrower-than, wider-than, and partial alignment
- How the tool tasks are automatically assisted (how sense-pairs are
pre-classified)
- Additional features designed especially to assist lexicographers
- Future developments
- Q&A session – bring your questions or send them in advance to
Oxford.Languages at oup.com  
 
This session is for anyone…

- interested in dictionary annotation tools
- working in automating dictionary-making
- working with linguistic linked data, especially LLD a at the level of
meaning
- interested in lexicography, especially in bi- and multilingual lexicography

Book your place:
http://tiny.cc/OxfordLanguages
 



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