Resumen de On-the-fly Generation of Dictionary Articles for the DWDS Website

Alexander Geyken, Frank Wiegand, Kay Michael Würzner

• We present a method for generating on-the-fly dictionary articles for the DWDS website (https://www.dwds.de). The DWDS website contains electronic versions of large legacy dictionaries as well as very large corpora. On-the-fly articles are a fallback solution for user queries that cannot be matched with dictionary headwords or one of its inflected forms on the website. They depend on an automatic morphological analyser that segments complex words into parts that formally match existing dictionary headwords in a reliable way. On-the-fly articles are a useful mechanism for increasing the number of headwords with minimal manual effort. They are particularly useful for compounding languages like German. The generation method described in this article is fully integrated into the DWDS website