Dictionary Express
is a revolutionary method of editing and updating existing or building new dictionaries, glossaries of terms and lexical databases.
is a revolutionary method of editing and updating existing or building new dictionaries, glossaries of terms and lexical databases.
We at Lexical Computing collaborate with our clients to create new or update existing dictionaries, glossaries of terms and lexical databases to the client’s specifications.
Whether print or electronic, our Dictionary Express method makes the dictionary editing process much faster, cheaper and more efficient. The cost and delivery times are only a fraction of what a traditional dictionary editing process would require.
The Dictionary Express method combines the best of natural language processing, artificial intelligence, corpus linguistics and manual data validation into a single package to deliver modern, state-of-the-art, corpus-driven dictionaries, lexical databases and similar lexicographic works.
The approach was developed, trialled and tested by Lexical Computing, the company behind the Sketch Engine corpus query system.
We invite publishers, web content developers, software companies and terminology managers to contact us and request a new dictionary, glossary or database to be built using the Dictionary Express method.
The process can be carried by Lexical Computing only or in collaboration with the client.
Developing dictionary content from scratch is both slow and expensive, and requires highly-skilled and trained linguists and lexicographers.
Dictionary Express makes the process faster and cost-effective by using AI augmented with the latest NLP and statistical methods. The content is generated automatically from corpus data. This dictionary draft is then validated and post-edited by human editors. The procedure abandons the traditional A to Z approach and replaces it with component-by-component editing. While dictionaries typically require many years or decades to be produced, our approach reduces the production time to months.
Contact us with your required dictionary parameters and a memeber of the team will be in touch to discuss the project with you and to offer our solution.