The adaptation of novel techniques and standards in computational lexicography is taking place at an accelerating pace, as manifested by recent extensions beyond the traditional XML-based paradigm of electronic publication. One important area of activity in this regard is the transformation of lexicographic resources into (Linguistic) Linked Open Data ([L]LOD), and the application of the OntoLex-Lemon vocabulary to electronic editions of dictionaries. At the moment, however, these activities focus on machine-readable dictionaries, natural language processing and modern languages and found only limited resonance in philology in general and in historical language stages in particular. This paper presents an endeavor to transform the resources of a comprehensive dictionary of Old French into LOD using OntoLex-Lemon and it evaluates the difficulties of modeling particular aspects that are due to the medieval stage of the language.
@InProceedings{TITTEL18.23, author = {Sabine Tittel and Christian Chiarcos}, title = {Linked Open Data for the Historical Lexicography of Old French}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {may}, date = {7-12}, location = {Miyazaki, Japan}, editor = {}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, address = {Paris, France}, isbn = {979-10-95546-28-3}, language = {english} }
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