Abstract |
Traditionally, orthographic variants have been modelled as different ways of spelling the same word - described at the level of the lexeme. But when inflection is taken into account, this runs into a problem: different citation forms have different inflectional paradigm - and orthographic variation does not merely affect the citation form, but the entire paradigm. The MorDebe database therefore models orthographic variation as a relation between distinct, yet still token-identical lexemes. This paper discusses the advantage of that approach, and the full set of practical problems that arose during the structural treatment of orthographic variation in the MorDebe database. |
BibTex |
@InProceedings{ELX06-022, author = {Maarten Janssen}, title = {Orthographic Variation in Lexical Databases }, pages = {167-172}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th EURALEX International Congress}, year = {2006}, month = {sep}, date = {6-9}, address = {Torino, Italy}, editor = {Elisa Corino, Carla Marello, Cristina Onesti}, publisher = {Edizioni dell'Orso}, isbn = {88-7694-918-6}, } |