BibTeX

@incollection{bouma-skoldberg-2025-dalin-351120,
	title        = {Dalin revisited: a new digitization of Ordbok öfver svenska språket },
	abstract     = {A.F. Dalin’s Dictionary of the Swedish language (Ordbok öfver svenska språket, 1850–1853) is considered to be the first comprehensive monolingual definition dictionary for Swedish. The dictionary collects ca. 60,000 entries in two volumes. The work’s many merits include high coverage in terms of vocabulary and semantic distinctions, as well as the treatment of different kinds of multiword units, such as phrasal verbs, collocations and idioms. This chapter presents some results of our ongoing efforts to create a new digital text version of this important piece of Swedish lexicographical history, motivated by the uneven quality of the existing digitization. We first briefly discuss the digitization itself: the digital form we currently have and what further derived versions we hope to create in the future. We then illustrate the
potential of looking at the dictionary as a text, combining a qualitative, lexicological perspective with a more quantitative, corpus-linguistic approach. Along the way, we point out characteristics of Dalin’s dictionary that potentially create problems when going from the linear, paper-based format to a database-style of access.},
	booktitle    = {Sixty years of Swedish computational lexicography / Dana Dannélls, Kristian Blensenius & Lars Borin (eds.)},
	author       = {Bouma, Gerlof and Sköldberg, Emma},
	year         = {2025},
	publisher    = {De Gruyter},
	address      = {Berlin},
	ISBN         = {9783111577135},
	pages        = {213--232},
}