LeXmart’s features

• Entry editor
• Validator
• Search
• Filters and statiscs
• Reports
• Backup system

One of our concerns – particularly given that the Portuguese Academy does not have a digital dictionary (only a two-volume paper edition, dated 2001) – has been researching for the preparation of a digital lexicographic resource that can respond to current needs (users, interoperability purposes, data structure, and data content standards).

The Portuguese Academy Dictionary

It is the fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life, to be rather driven by the fear of evil, than attracted by the prospect of good;

to be exposed to censure, without hope of praise […]

Among these unhappy mortals is the writer of dictionaries; […]

Every other authour may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompence has been yet granted to very few.

Samuel Johnson (A Dictionary of the English Language, 1755)

In Portugal, in spite of the successive attempts of the Academy, only in the 21st century (more precisely in 2001) did the ACL publish a complete dictionary (from A to Z), Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa Contemporânea (DLPC), in a two-volume paper version. At that time, the inexistence of a database led us to convert the print version into an XML document and later on to import the data into a SQL database (eXist-db). A digital version – a work being developed by a team from the University of Minho – is the basis of the ongoing review of this dictionary.

Managing our data

• Buildind the model of the dictionary
• Identifying the structural components of the dictionary
• Checking the TEI Guidelines
• Working with XML editor and a TEI schema

GitLab Repository

https://gitlab.com/lexmart/lexmart-backend/

References

Salgado, A., Simões, A., Iriarte, A., Vieira, R., Ferreira, M., Carmo, R., Pinheiro, C. (2023). Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa: a new lexicographic resource of Academia das Ciências de Lisboa. eLex 2023 Conference, 27 to 29 Junho 2023. Brno: República Checa.

Simões, A., Salgado, A. (2022). Smart Dictionary Editing with LeXmart. In Klosa-Kückelhaus, A., Engelberg, Stefan, Möhrs, Christine & Storjohann, Petra (eds.). Dictionaries and Society. Proceedings of the XX EURALEX International Congress. Mannheim: IDS-Verlag, pp. 423-434. ISBN 978-3-937241-87-6.

Salgado, A. (2021). Terminological Methods in Lexicography: Conceptualising, Organising and Encoding Terms in General Language dictionaries. Tese de doutoramento, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Lisboa, Portugal.

Simões, A., Salgado, A., & Costa, R. (2021). LeXmart: A platform designed with lexicographical data in mind. In I. Kosem et al. (Eds.), Electronic lexicography in the 21st century: Post-editing lexicography. Proceedings of the eLex 2021 conference (pp. 529–541). Brno: Lexical Computing CZ. ISSN 2533-5626.

Salgado, A., Costa, R., Tasovac, T., & Simões, A. (2019). TEI Lex-0 In Action: Improving the encoding of the Dictionary of the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa. In I. Kosem et al. (Eds.), Electronic lexicography in the 21st century. Proceedings of the eLex 2019 conference (pp. 417–433). Sintra, Portugal. Brno: Lexical Computing CZ, s.r.o.

Simões, A., Salgado, A., Costa, R., & Almeida, J. J. (2019). LeXmart: A Smart Tool for Lexicographers. In I. Kosem et al. (eds.), Electronic Lexicography in the 21st Century: Proceedings of the eLex 2019 Conference: Smart Lexicography (pp. 453–466). Brno: Lexical Computing CZ, s.r.o.

Simões, A., Almeida, J. J., & Salgado, A. (2016). Building a Dictionary using XML Technology. In M. Mernik et al. (eds.), 5th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE’16), vol. 51 of Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs) (Vol. 51, Issue 14, pp. 14:1–14:8). Oasics, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Dagstuhl Publishing.