Ein Computerlinguistisches Lexikon als komplexes System

Zusammenfassung
different means. This assures transparency, and adequacy of the resources’ linguistic
description.
The lexicon ’IMSLEX’
The realisation of the lexicon follows the conception developed in the DeKo
project (cf. Schmid et al. (2001)). In the thesis, the internal structure of the resource
is described in great detail. Besides this, the range of subjects mentioned
concerning the lexicon comprises the questions of how to fill the lexicon with
information, how the human interaction with the lexicon works, how the interface
to a subsequent processing component is constructed, and, last but not
least, how the lexicon can be maintained.
The lexicon has been realised using the XML standard, thereby ensuring
interchangeability of the data. Besides, there is a vast range of tools supporting
the automatic processing of XML documents, thereby reducing the need of reinventing
the wheel for standard applications like parsing the data, checking
for the validity of the resources’ structure, and so on.
3 The Contribution of this thesis
The contribution of this thesis is the detailed description of a comprehensive
morphological lexicon for German that is based on a sound model of morphological
units and processes. Not only have some controversial phenomena been
described, but furthermore their treatment in a morphological analysis component
has been placed in context of their representation in the lexicon.
As a result, the comparison, and the purposeful refinement of morphological
lexicons and morphological analysis components for German is greatly
improved.
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