Modelling Etymology in LMF/TEI: The Grande Dicionário Houaiss da Língua Portuguesa Dictionary as a Use Case

Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020), pages 3172–3180 Marseille, 11–16 May 2020 c⃝ European Language Resources Association (ELRA), licensed under CC-BY-NC 3172 Modelling Etymology in LMF/TEI: The Grande Dicion´ario Houaiss da L´ıngua Portuguesa Dictionary as a Use Case Fahad Khan1, Laurent Romary2, Ana Salgado3,4, Jack Bowers2,5, Mohamed Khemakhem6,2,7,8, Toma Tasovac9 1Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “A. Zampolli– CNR”, Pisa, Italy 2Inria-ALMAnaCH – Automatic Language Modelling and ANAlysis Computational Humanities, Paris, France 3NOVA CLUNL, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal 4Academia das Ciˆencias de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal 5ACDH-CH – Austrian Center for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Vienna, Austria 6Litt & Arts - UMR 5316, Grenoble 7Universit´e Paris Diderot, Paris, France 8Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, Germany 9Belgrade Center for Digital Humanities, Belgrade, Serbia fahad.khan@ilc.cnr.it, {laurent.romary, mohamed.khemakhem}@inria.fr, anasalgado@campus.fcsh.unl.pt, Jack.Bowers@oeaw.ac.at, ttasovac@humanistika.org Abstract In this article, we will introduce two of the new parts of the new multi-part version of the Lexical Markup Framework (LMF) ISO standard, namely Part 3 of the standard (ISO 24613-3), which deals with etymological and diachronic data, and Part 4 (ISO 24613-4), which consists of a TEI serialisation of all of the prior parts of the model. We will demonstrate the use of both standards by describing the LMF encoding of a small number of examples taken from a sample conversion of the reference Portuguese dictionary Grande Dicion´ario Houaiss da L´ıngua Portuguesa, part of a broader experiment comprising the analysis of different, heterogeneously encoded, Portuguese lexical resources. We present the examples in the Unified Modelling Language (UML) and also in a couple of cases in TEI. Keywords: LMF, TEI, Portuguese Language Resources, Dictionaries 1. Introduction In this article, we will introduce two parts of the new multi-part version of the Lexical Markup Frame- work (LMF) International Organization for Standard- ization (ISO) standard, namely Part 3 of the standard (ISO/DIS 24613-3), which deals with etymological and diachronic data, and Part 4 (ISO/DIS 24613-4), which consists of a TEI serialisation of all of the prior parts of the model (in what follows we will refer to the TEI-XML serialisation of LMF data as LMF in TEI). In particular, we will show how LMF and especially parts 3 and 4 can be used to encode etymological data by taking example encodings of entries from an im- portant reference dictionary for the Portuguese lan- guage, the Grande Dicion´ario Houaiss da L´ıngua Por- tuguesa (Houaiss, 2015), from now on Houaiss. Note that although we have previously introduced the new version LMF standard as a whole (Romary et al., 2019), our aim in the current work is to describe and motivate the particular approach which we, as authors of these two parts of the standard, have taken to represent- ing etymological data, an approach which is closely related to previous work carried out by some of the authors of the current work in TEI and linked data, but which also takes advantage of the increased levels of abstraction offered by LMF over those two other data frameworks. The rest of …

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