Estonian Papers in Applied Linguistics - Eesti Rakenduslingvistika ...

ESTONIAN-X DICTIONARY AND GRAMMARÜlle ViksInstitute of the Estonian LanguageProblems connected with representation of grammatical information in a bilingualdictionary are discussed. The focus lies on the Estonian-X dictionary (EXS), its placein dictionary typology and consequent requirements. The EXS is a universal lexicogrammaticaldatabase enabling to generate the electronic basis for an arbitrarybilingual dictionary, providing Estonian as the sou1rce language ready-made in astandard format. It is designed to present grammatical information as well structuredas possible, tapping various levels of language description from phonology tosemantics; data selection and presentation are based on relations of dictionary vs.grammar. The EXS being a metalevel database its format should be exible enoughto be independent of the target language, type and design of the output dictionary. Abrief introduction is made of the available tools to develop and implement the EXS:the dictionary management system EELex (lexicographer’s working environment)and a grammatical entry generator.Keywords: bilingual lexicography, grammatical information, language processing,XML, dictionary management system, Estonian261