Aggregating Dictionaries into the Language Portal Sõnaveeb: Issues With and Without Solutions

• Kristina Koppel ^[1] ; Arvi Tavast ^[1] ; Margit Langemets ^[1] ; Jelena Kallas ^[1]
  1. [1] Institute of the Estonian Language

     Institute of the Estonian Language

     Kesklinna linnaosa, Estonia

     
• Localización: Electronic lexicography in the 21st century. Proceedings of the eLex 2019 conference. 1-3 October 2019, Sintra, Portugal / Iztok Kosem (ed. lit.), Tanara Zingano Kuhn (ed. lit.), Margarita Correia (ed. lit.), José Pedro Ferreira (ed. lit.), Maarten Jansen (ed. lit.), Isabel Pereira (ed. lit.), Jelena Kallas (ed. lit.), Miloš Jakubíček (ed. lit.), Simon Krek (ed. lit.), Carole Tiberius (ed. lit.), 2019, págs. 434-452
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  • In this paper we present Sõnaveeb, a new type of language portal of the Institute of the Estonian Language containing data from a growing number of dictionaries and termbases. Sõnaveeb currently displays a total of 200,000 Estonian headwords, obtained from many databases, with many new types of lexicographic information: collocations, etymology, multi-word expressions, etc. The paper reports on problems encountered so far: the consistency of information and avoiding duplicates when unifying the dictionaries, turning dictionary-specific information into customizations of the central service, deciding on deliberate ambiguities, parsing data fields containing more than one data element, including textual condensation, moving from annotating form (e.g. italics) to annotating content (e.g. a citation), moving from (near) duplicates to sensible information fragments, deciding between an app and a responsive web page, and possible legal problems regarding the authorship of the new central resource, as it may become difficult to show who authored which part of the published resource. The development of Sõnaveeb continues in the direction of both the tighter aggregation of existing datasets and the addition of new data from other dictionaries and termbases, as well as compiling new data in the new DWS Ekilex.