Wielki słownik frazeologiczny języka polskiego w Internecie. Wybrane zagadnienia naukowe i techniczne
The Great Dictionary of Polish Phraseology on the Internet. Selected scientifi c and technical issues

Author(s): Piotr Müldner-Nieckowski, Łukasz Müldner-Nieckowski
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: on-line dictionary; database; idiom; search engine; defining; photolexicography
Summary/Abstract: The book edition of the Wielki słownik frazeologiczny języka polskiego (The Great Dictionary of Polish Phraseology) was published in 2003. The dictionary contained c. 200,000 of the idiomatic units condensed in 38,000 entries. The article discusses some problems which arose in relation to the disappearance of the possibility of printing successive editions of the dictionary in Poland after 2005, which resulted in applying new lexicographical methods (including those for phraseology approach). A database of the dictionary was transferred to the Internet, creating an on-line dictionary for practical and research purposes. A Frazeologia.pl forum, on which authors corresponded with the users of the dictionary and other persons searching for phraseological information, including professional linguists, was started. In this way, for a few years they gathered information as for expectations of the users of the dictionary, both of its pedagogic, as well as scientific version. The dictionary was made available to Internet users in 2010 in the Frazeologia.pl service. Research and working part of dictionary is available only to its authors and partners. Creating the algorithm of searching the base posed a considerable problem on account of the discontinuity of phrases in the line of text, the inflection, the alternation and the suppletion, as it required putting together multi-word forms and their groups according to different criteria. In relation to the specificity of the phraseology, building the own corpus of collected quotations proved necessary photolexicographically (along with OCR), as well as drawing up automatic methods of the evaluation of the usefulness excerptions. The service of the database should enable bringing the dictionary up to date, comparing passwords according to selected parameters, allocating momentary bases at research targets, implementing new fields in records of concise individuals and filling them with contents (e.g. giving new parameters to the explication), creating definitional semantic counts, putting variants together, generating the code for different systems of publishing, as well as for dictionaries for different purposes.

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