Süntaktiline info sõnastikus: probleeme ja väljavaateid
Syntactic information in dictionaries: problems and solutions

Summary/Abstract: The article offers a brief overview of the kind and manner of syntactic infor¬mation represented in typical machine-readable dictionaries and computa¬tional lexicons, focusing on the representation of this kind of information in Estonian dictionaries. Syntactic constructions have been described in several Estonian dictionaries, but mostly implicitly, by means of case examples, as no general syntactic encoding system has yet been elaborated. The ongoing national project Estonian-X Dictionary, started in 2002, aims to fulfil the needs of the source (L1) for different bilingual dictionaries and a new one- volume monolingual dictionary, as well as a variety of computer applications. A closer look will be taken at morphosyntactic information, dealing mostly with parts of speech, and dependency information. The representation of dependency relations in the database of the Estonian-X Dictionary differs from the traditional practice in that the syntactic description of each verb consists of three components: syntactic function, thematic role and government. The Estonian-X Dictionary is strictly formalized, using XML markup, in order to facilitate access by computers.

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