Bosworth-Toller’s Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004702660_009" target="_blank" >10.1163/9789004702660_009</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Bosworth-Toller’s Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online

Original language description

Over the century since its publication, the Anglo-Saxon Dictionary may have been both scorned and hailed (Baker, 2003: 284; Bradley &amp; Haigh, 2004: 749), but it has remained the only fairly comprehensive dictionary of Old English available to both experts and the public (see Section 2). While it is being slowly replaced by the Dictionary of Old English (2018), it may be well over a decade or more before it can fully replace the Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, considering the enormous amount of work this project, run since the nineteen-seventies by the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, entails. And even after the completed DOE is published, the Anglo-Saxon Dictionary may still be valuable to its users: both as a public domain (and therefore free) alternative for those with limited access to the DOE, and as a historical document-an important witness to the scholarship that had created it as well as the scholarship that has since been achieved with its help.1Furthermore, the digital version of the Dictionary is also a useful resource for various other projects and applications, from automatic morphological analysis and lemmatization of Old English or spelling and variation databases to desktop and smartphone apps that make the data accessible to wider audiences.To provide an appropriate groundwork for its various users and uses, the digital version of Dictionary has to keep developing both the quality of its database as well as the software and interface that stores and provides the data.In this chapter, the digitization project of the Dictionary is introduced with the aim of sharing the experience in processing historical lexicographical data leading to both a freely accessible online dictionary as well as an open source lexical database of Old English.The paper starts with the description and history of the printed Dictionary noting especially the convoluted process of its development that led to its complexity and some of its problematic qualities like inconsistency. Given how challenging the resulting paper Dictionary can be for its users, the following section makes a case for its digital version and summarizes the circuitous path of the digitization project itself as well as related avenues of research like the automatic morphological analysis of Old English. Finally, the current state of the online Dictionary is described both from the user perspective and in its technical detail. The chapter concludes with the discussion of the major challenges facing the online Dictionary, namely the disambiguation of its references, the integration of the Supplement and its future updates. With that, future developments and avenues of further research are explored.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

Project

<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000734" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000734: Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Structuring Lexical Data and Digitising Dictionaries

ISBN

978-90-04-70266-0

Number of pages of the result

24

Pages from-to

184-207

Number of pages of the book

398

Publisher name

Brill

Place of publication

Leiden

UT code for WoS chapter

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