[Lexicog] Bibliography of lexicography

[Mike Maxwell]

In the past, it was common to have reference works published in certain 
fields from time to time, which served to remind people what the major 
findings and publications in the field were.  Handbooks are one example, 
although shorter papers have been done for smaller fields.

With the advent of web search engines, that is probably passe.  One can 
imagine that a better tool would be an website--perhaps a wiki--that 
would be a repository of guidelines for a field, citations, etc.  It 
might be a good place to point people to who want to know how to get 
started, but it sh/could also be a good place for veterans to go, too.

What made me think of this was running across a paper
   http://www.njas.helsinki.fi/pdf-files/vol14num3/kiango.pdf
while I was searching for s.t. else.  At a quick glance, this paper 
looks like another attack on the old problem of how to alphabetize a 
dictionary for a largely prefixing language--Bantu languages, in this 
case, although the problem comes up in Athabaskan languages, and for 
that matter in any language where citation forms are prefixed.  (The 
book I keep bringing up on this list, Bartholomew and Schoenhalls, has a 
section devoted to the problem.  And of course you can get around the 
problem with an electronic dictionary and a morphological parsing 
interface--but I digress.)

I haven't looked at this particular paper enough to know whether the 
author has new ideas, or is re-inventing the wheel.  But it's the sort 
of issue that one would like to be able to point someone to a URL and 
say: "Here's what people have said about your problem", and the URL 
would have explanatory text, citations, and links to on-line papers.

The ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics) has recently started 
a wiki that might be one place to put the kind of information I have in 
mind, although the ACL is not field-linguist oriented.  (Not yet, 
anyway.)  EMELD could be another, although I don't believe they have a 
wiki yet, nor does SIL.

Thoughts?
-- 
	Mike Maxwell
	maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu


 
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