Conversion of the Clark Hall Dictionary of Old English to TEI with RDF: An End-to-end Pipeline for Lexicographic Resource Retrodigitization

Sergei Stoliarov, Maxim Ionov, Fahad Khan, Marina Buzzoni, Francesca Frontini


Abstract
In this submission we introduce a workflow/pipeline for creating TEI editions of legacy dictionaries using a parser based on a context-free grammar (CFG). We do this by describing a project which we are currently carrying out and which aims to create a digital edition of an Old English dictionary, Clark-Hall’s “A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary” using this approach. We begin the article by motivating our CFG-based approach, discussing its advantages and disadvantages, and comparing to it other approaches. We argue that this approach is suitable to certain kinds of dictionaries, such as Clark Hall’s. We then describe the microstructure of the dictionary itself with a view both to justifying the kinds of rules which we subsequently describe and to outlining the kinds of resources to which we believe our approach is best suited. We then describe the CFG parser itself and give an account of our experiments in parsing the dictionary. Finally, we outline the enrichment of the parsed dictionary with RDFa and the benefits it has for the published data.
Anthology ID:
2026.lrec-1.561
Volume:
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:
May
Year:
2026
Address:
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Editors:
Stelios Piperidis, Núria Bel, Henk van den Heuvel, Nancy Ide, Simon Krek, Antonio Toral
Venue:
LREC
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Publisher:
ELRA Language Resource Association
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Pages:
7046–7055
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External URL:
https://lrec.elra.info/lrec2026-main-561
DOI:
10.63317/3b2x67e8vd8g
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Cite (ACL):
Sergei Stoliarov, Maxim Ionov, Fahad Khan, Marina Buzzoni, and Francesca Frontini. 2026. Conversion of the Clark Hall Dictionary of Old English to TEI with RDF: An End-to-end Pipeline for Lexicographic Resource Retrodigitization. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 7046–7055, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. ELRA Language Resource Association.
Cite (Informal):
Conversion of the Clark Hall Dictionary of Old English to TEI with RDF: An End-to-end Pipeline for Lexicographic Resource Retrodigitization (Stoliarov et al., LREC 2026)
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