Modern lexicography in Iceland 10th annual conference of EFNIL at Budapest October Guðrún Kvaran - University of Iceland

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Topics covered An Icelandic historical dictionary ISLEX: an Icelandic-Scandinavian dictionary A database of modern Icelandic inflection A tagged Icelandic corpus An Icelandic wordnet Snara: collection of dictionaries Guðrún Kvaran - University of Iceland3

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Icelandic corpus 80 million running words Open access tasafn Guðrún Kvaran - University of Iceland5

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The ISLEX dictionary Icelandic headwords, translations into five languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian (bokmål og nynorsk) and Faroese The dictionary describes modern Icelandic About lemmas (medium-sized dictionary) A large number of collocations, phrases and idioms Many examples of use Links to a database of inflections (nouns, adjectives, verbs) D, N, S were opened in November 2011 (Faroese in 2013?) 8Guðrún Kvaran - University of Iceland

Nordic collaboration ISLEX is the result of the collaboration of five Nordic countries. Five academic institutes are partners in the project. It combines six Nordic languages and is therefore an important contribution to the understanding between these nations – which are all closely related culturally and historically but speak different languages. The project has enhanced the relations between the participant universities and institutes. ISLEX has received generous grants from Nordic funds. The dictionary is open to the public on the web, free of charge. 9Guðrún Kvaran - University of Iceland

Partners and Financing Iceland: Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum, Reykjavík Denmark: Det Danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab (DSL), Copenhagen Norway: The University of Bergen Sweden: Institutionen för svenska språket, Göteborg Faroe Islands: Fróðskaparsetur Føroya, Tórshavn Each institute is a special unit team who takes care of the translations into their respective languages. They are also responsible for the financing of their part of the project. The project is mainly funded by the government of each participating country. 10Guðrún Kvaran - University of Iceland

The Dictionary database ISLEX is a completely new dictionary designed for the web It is operated and maintained in a central database, based in Reykjavík The editorial work is done simultaneously in the five countries The features of the web are used: pictures, sounds, hyperlinks, plus a range of search functions, etc. The database also functions as a communication tool 11Guðrún Kvaran - University of Iceland

Current status Some components remain to be finished, e.g. the recordings of the pronunciations of the headwords sem stendur nú yfir. The translations are in different stages of completion, Swedish and Danish are nearly finished, 83% of the two Norwegians and 21% of Faroese (The Faroe Islands joined the project in February 2011). Finland is preparing to join í byrjun árs 2013 (the Finnish language) 12Guðrún Kvaran - University of Iceland

ISLEX on the web ISLEX can be accessed in four ways (a choice of different user profiles according to the metalanguage of the web page): Icelandic Danish Norwegian Swedish Now available on mobile phones: iPhone, Nokia windows, Android 13Guðrún Kvaran - University of Iceland

Icelandic morphology 16 inflectional forms to a noun 120 inflectional forms to an adjective 107 inflectional forms to a verb, not including variants. The endings that mark grammatical categories can, in some instances, have a number of variants. Stem changes are common, both in vowels and consonants. Guðrún Kvaran - University of Iceland14

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The database of modern Icelandic inflection About paradigms from Modern Icelandic. Over 5.8 million inflectional forms. The database was created as a multipurpose resource, for use in language technology, lexicography, and as an online resource for the general public. Guðrún Kvaran - University of Iceland16

The database of modern Icelandic inflection Kristín Bjarnadóttir The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection. LREC 2012 Proceedings: Proceedings of "Language Technology for Normalization of Less-Resourced Languages", SaLTMiL 8 -- AfLaT [ conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/index.html: Workshops, SaLTMil-AfLaT]The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection. 17Guðrún Kvaran - University of Iceland

A tagged Icelandic corpus Consists of about 25 million tokens of contemporary Icelandic texts. The texts were collected from varied sources during the years 2006–2010. The corpus is intented for use in Language Technology projects and for linguistic research. The corpus is availble for search through a web interface. The permission for the use of texts in the corpus has been secured from all copyright holders. Guðrún Kvaran - University of Iceland18

A tagged Icelandic corpus Sigrún Helgadóttir, Ásta Svavarsdóttir, Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, Kristín Bjarnadóttir & Hrafn Loftsson The Tagged Icelandic Corpus (MÍM). LREC 2012 Proceedings: Proceedings of "Language Technology for Normalization of Less-Resourced Languages", SaLTMiL 8 -- AfLaT [ conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/index.html: Workshops, SaLTMil-AfLaT]The Tagged Icelandic Corpus (MÍM). Guðrún Kvaran - University of Iceland19

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An Icelandic wordnet Accessible as an online dictionary on the website: Guðrún Kvaran - University of Iceland21

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