The Design of Online Lexicons

• Introduction
• "Lexicons" & "Online"
• Macrostructure
  • Macrostucture & Indexing in Print Lexicons
  • Macrostucture in Online Lexicons
  • Fuzzy Matching & Stemming
  • Multiword Queries
• Microstructure & The Content of Entries
  • Density in the Microstructure of Print Dictionaries
  • The Microstructure of Online Lexicons
  • New Textual Content in Online Lexicons
    • Full Paradigms
    • Example Sentences
    • Necessary "Encyclopedic" Information
  • Multimedia in Online Lexicons
  • Customizability
• Interstructure
• Editorial Issues
  • Ease and Speed of Maintenance
  • The Expectation of Maintenance
  • Editing for Small Speech Communities
    • Editing for Lexicons of Specialist Jargons
    • Editing for Lexicons of Native Languages
• Bibliography

Burke, Sean Michael (sburke@cpan.org). 1998. The Design of Online Lexicons. Master's thesis: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

• all.html (96Kb) -- one big HTML file
• ma_lex.zip (34Kb) -- as a RTF file, compressed with PKZip. Good for any paper size.
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• burke_thesis_USLetter.ps.gz (40Kb) -- PostScript (gzip compressed) formatted for US (8.5x11) paper. Twenty-four pages.

Sean M. Burke