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

Presentation name Presenter Name and Date2

Examples of core changes



Pronunciation


Forms


Etymology


Definitions


Antedatings

OED2 adj. and n.

OED Online n. and adj.


Massive antedatings


Postdatings

like adv. (OED2 –1879)


Traditional lexicography and

digital lexicography


Were they from Geneva, or was it really Genoa?


Genoa…


but, later, Geneva


Only in the OED…

OED and corpora


• 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.


What do we use corpora for?


typicality


identifying new compounds


table quiz


where do they have table quizzes?

22

Word comparison

23

Diachronic possibilities


inciting things (good and bad)

25

looking bad now

26

was it looking better earlier?

Thank you

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

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