[Lexicog] Digitales W örterbuch der Deutschen Sp rache

[Fritz Goerling]

Thanks, Patrick, for the information,

I 'll follow this up.

Greetings,
Fritz


  Fritz --

  You said:

      I am interested in your "Digitales Wörterbuch der Deutschen
      Sprache".

  The first thing to say is that it's not mine.  I am merely a guest and a
consultant.
  The head of the project is Dr Alexander Geyken.

  The public face of the DWDS at present consists of two things:

  1. An electronic edition of the six-volume Wörterbuch der deutschen
  Gegenwartssprache (WDG), a detailed account of the contemporary
  German langauge of the 1970s and 80s and living proof that not everything
  that went on in the old DDR was bad.  It is a wonderfully clear and useful
  dictionary, for which I have an ever-increasing respect, even though it is
  "pre-coprus".

  2. A very large corpus of 20th century texts in machine readable form,
with
  concordancers and other tools. The total corpus consists of 1.2 billion
words,
  but (mainly for copyright reasons) not all of these are publicly
available.
  However, 100 million words of the DWDS corpus are publicly available,
free,
  on line. See http://www.dwds.de for details.

  3. A detailed analysis of German idioms (ongoing), headed by Dr Christiane
  Fellbaum and funded by the Wolfgang Paul Preis of the Humboldt Foundation.

  * *

  Behind the scenes, all sorts of good things are going on here by way of
  lexical research -- including a focus on computational lexicography and a
  large collection of writings on the lexicon. More is planned, depending on
  the availablilty of funding.  It's too early to say more. Watch this
space!

  Patrick










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