andrew ball - the oxford english dictionary online: work in progress, and future plans

The Oxford English Dictionary Online:work in progress and future plans

Some facts & figures

• 231,165 entries in OED2

• 35% of OED2 entries revised (38% of all ‘items’)

• 275,629 entries currently on OED Online, of which 121,771

are revised entries (44%)

• 886,675 ‘items’ currently on OED Online, of which 371,390

are revised ‘items’ (42%)

• 61,993 new ‘items’

• 3,442,257 illustrative quotations

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Examples of core changes

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Pronunciation

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Forms

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Etymology

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Definitions

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Antedatings

OED2 adj. and n.

OED Online n. and adj.

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Massive antedatings

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Postdatings

like adv. (OED2 –1879)

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Traditional lexicography and

digital lexicography

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Were they from Geneva, or was it really Genoa?

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Genoa…

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but, later, Geneva

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Only in the OED…

OED and corpora

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• to assess what constitutes typical use (in terms of collocational

behaviour, register, etc.), so that we define typical use and include

representative illustrative examples;

• to identify new lemmas, compounds, phrases, and (where

possible) senses;

• to establish the regional scope of words and regional variation

between related words;

• to make detailed comparisons between closely related words;

• to establish frequencies of lemmas, etc., and relative frequencies

between them;

• to speed up editorial decision-making.

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What do we use corpora for?

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typicality

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identifying new compounds

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table quiz

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where do they have table quizzes?

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Word comparison

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Diachronic possibilities

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inciting things (good and bad)

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looking bad now

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was it looking better earlier?

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