New opportunities offered by information technology make it possible to apply new methods to lexicography. This paper describes a project that will result in compiling a new Latvian-English dictíonary of unprecedented size and quality by reversing the definition entries of the many English-Latvian dictionaries currently in print. The paper discusses: the current lexicographic situation, which forms the backdrop for the reversal project; the process of reversal itself, conclusions about the reversal project, its pros and cons, problems and findings; and corollary conclusions about the contents and structure of dictionaries used for reversal. The last area is in some ways the most interesting as such projects might have a future in Latvia and elsewhere.
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The Dictionary-Making Process
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@InProceedings{ELX04-034, author = {Andrejs Veisbergs}, title = {Reversal as means of building a new dictionary }, pages = {327-332}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 11th EURALEX International Congress}, year = {2004}, month = {july}, date = {6-10}, address = {Lorient, France}, editor = {Geoffrey Williams and Sandra Vessier}, publisher = {Université de Bretagne-Sud, Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines}, isbn = {29-52245-70-3}, }
