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        <article-title>Modelling Lexicographic Resources using CIDOC-CRM, FRBRoo and Ontolex-Lemon</article-title>
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          <institution>Istituto Di Linguistica Computazionale `A. Zampolli'</institution>
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        <p>The article describes a new approach to the modelling and publication of lexicographic resources, including retro-digitised dictionaries, as linked data. This approach is based on the use of the CIDOCCRM aligned FRBRoo ontology together with the Ontolex-Lemon vocabulary and its follow up lexicographic module, lexicog. After introducing the TEI-based distinction between di erent views on lexicographic resources, we discuss Ontolex-Lemon and CIDOC-CRM and FRBRoo. Next, we look at some motivating use cases before introducing our approach. Finally, we model one of these use cases in more depth using this approach.</p>
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      <p>In this article, we propose an approach to the modelling and publication of
retrodigitised dictionaries (and related resources) as linked data based on the use of
the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CIDOC-CRM) aligned FRBRoo
ontology together with the Ontolex-Lemon vocabulary and its follow-up module,
lexicog (all introduced in Section 2). To this end, we propose several new classes
and properties to act as a bridge between the rst resource and the latter two
vocabularies (see Section 4). We motivate our approach in Section 2.1 by
examining the di erent levels of descriptions that lexicographic works usually contain
and that this approach is speci cally designed to model. Our analysis is based
on several representative use cases (presented in Section 3).
2.1</p>
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    <sec id="sec-2">
      <title>Background</title>
      <p>
        This article discusses the modelling of lexicographic resources as linked data.
The term lexicographic resources includes so-called machine-readable
dictionaries [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref6">6</xref>
        ], that is, lexical resources that are either digital versions of previously
existing paper dictionaries (so-called retro-digitised dictionaries) or updated
digital editions of such dictionaries. In addition, we also classify as lexicographic
resources born-digital lexical resources which are structured or organised
according to the conventions of traditional dictionaries (or which contain signi cant
portions organised as such). In broader terms, we de ne a lexicographic resource
as a language resource a signi cant portion of which consists of a set of
lexicographic articles or entries written and organised according to some suitable
lexicographic criteria. Prima facie, there are two main approaches which we can
take in modelling lexicographic resources in general and retro-digitised
dictionaries in particular. We can view a dictionary primarily as a cultural/textual
artefact with its own speci c publishing history and its own verbal expression
and visual arrangement of the linguistic content contained within it. Or we can
prioritise the linguistic content instead, ignoring how it is presented and the
exact sequence of words used in, for example, the de nitions of articles. Of course,
there is also a third (potentially more verbose) approach, that is, to do both
at the same time and make sure both kinds of information are aligned. The
distinction made in Chapter 9 (\Dictionaries") of the Text Encoding Guidelines
(TEI) between the typographical, editorial and lexical views of a dictionary is
particularly useful in this discussion. These views are de ned as follows: the
typographical view concerns the layout of individual pages; the editorial view is
concerned with the properties of a text modelled as a sequence of tokens; and
the lexical view is concerned with the conceptual or linguistic content of a
dictionary as a whole, as well as its individual entries1. In addition to these views, TEI
also o ers extensive provision, in the teiHeader element, for including metadata
about an original resource to be modelled (e.g., who the authors were and when
it was published) and about the process of its digitisation as well as the curation
of that process.
      </p>
      <p>In this work, we will concentrate on the modelling of lexicographic resources
as linked data to be published on the Semantic Web. This means that the
distinctions made in the TEI guidelines are not su cient for our purposes since the
data modelling a ordances that TEI-XML o ers are di erent from those o ered
by linked data and the Semantic Web. This is due both to the expressive
possibilities o ered by knowledge representation formalisms, such as the Resource
Data Framework (RDF) and the Web Ontology Language (OWL), as
well as to the ready availability of tools and relevant ontologies and vocabularies
in those formalisms. All of this o ers data modellers enhanced possibilities for
representing the conceptual relationships between di erent levels of description
in lexicographic resources in a more explicit and, hence, more machine-actionable
way. Provision for the modelling of the TEI lexical view in a linked data
lexico1 With the typographical view we would be interested in e.g., the position of line breaks
in a text, or the visual arrangement of entries on any single page; with the editorial
view we are interested in such things as which words are used in the description of the
article and in which order; nally in the lexical view we're interested in information
about the given domain of a specialised lexical unit (a term) or sense of a lexical
unit, or that a given headword is a \verb".
graphic resource is already covered in large part by Ontolex-Lemon (which is
explored in some detail in Section 2.2) with the latter providing a common data
model for the creation of linked data lexicons. Such lexicons can potentially
contain information derived from various sources (including, but not limited
to, lexicographic resources), and so the use of a common model that imposes
conceptual restrictions on how lexical data is represented ultimately facilitates
the interoperability of such datasets. Such lexicons can potentially contain
information derived from various di erent sources (including but not limited to
lexicographic resources) and so the use of a common model that imposes
conceptual restrictions on how lexical data is represented2 ultimately facilitates the
interoperability of such datasets. However, this presents us with the problem of
translating the surface representation of this same information (this
representation corresponding to the typographic and editorial views mentioned above)
into linked data as well as of relating these di erent levels of description
together with each other and with the lexical view { something that is not always
straightforward3. We are often also interested in numerous other details related
to the conception and publication of dictionaries. This is true of historically
important dictionaries and/or dictionaries that have gone through signi cant
changes across their di erent editions.</p>
      <p>Broadly speaking then, we are talking here about the distinction between
the linguistic content of a dictionary text and its metadata (we would argue
that the latter category also includes the TEI typographic and editorial views).
Our approach (which as far as we are aware is fairly novel with regard to
lexicographic resources) is to model this complexity using the top-level ontology
CIDOC-CRM and the CIDOC-aligned ontology FRBRoo along with
OntolexLemon and lexicog. In other words, we rst seek to model separately and then to
integrate together the various di erent aspects of a lexicographic resource using a
conceptual modelling approach that uses the ontologies/vocabularies mentioned
above along with various others available on the Semantic Web. We propose to
do this in a way that makes the semantics of the data as explicit and
therefore as machine-actionable as possible. To motivate our approach (described in
more detail in Section 4) and to help the reader better appreciate some of the
challenges involved, we will look at one speci c kind of use case in detail (in
Section 3). Before that, however, we will provide brief introductions to some of
the models and vocabularies just mentioned.
2 For instance a headword, corresponding to a lexical entry in Ontolex-Lemon, can
only be associated with a single part of speech
3 At the same time however our task is simpli ed by the fact that the information in a
dictionary (as represented by the lexical view) often (though not always) tends to be
of a standard form and is organised in a fairly standardised way. At least this is the
case to an extent which isn't true of for example biographies or scienti c papers, or
most other kinds of text where we might be interested in annotating both structural
aspects as well as the truth values of the claims being made in the text.</p>
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        <title>Ontolex-Lemon and Lexicog</title>
        <p>
          The Lexicon Model for Ontologies of the W3C Ontology-Lexicon
community group, also known as Ontolex-Lemon, is a linked data native model
for the creation of lexical resources4 [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref9">9</xref>
          ]. Ontolex-Lemon was originally developed
to facilitate the addition of linguistic information to Semantic Web ontologies.
However, it quickly became a de facto standard for the modelling of lexicons
in RDF with or without the ontological component as originally envisaged.
Inspired by previous lexical standards such as the Lexical Markup Framework [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref6">6</xref>
          ],
the vocabulary contains classes such as Lexicon, Lexical Entry, Lexical Sense,
Form and Word (the names of the classes are fairly self-explanatory).The
popularity of the Ontolex-Lemon vocabulary as well as the need to deal with cases
where there is a substantial di erence between the organisation of entries on a
page and the modelling proposed by Ontolex-Lemon5, soon led to calls for an
extension of the original model speci cally tailored to the representation of
lexicographic resources. The OntoLex Lemon Lexicography Module (lexicog)
was subsequently developed in response [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref3">3</xref>
          ]. Figure 1 shows the main classes and
properties of the new module. The class Lexicographic Resource, as distinct
from the Lexicon class in Ontolex-Lemon (included in the lime sub-module of
the latter), consists of a collection of Entry individuals where each such
individual is \a structural element that represents a lexicographic article or record as it
is arranged in a source lexicographic resource"6. The latter is also a subclass of
the class Lexicographic Component whose individuals are de ned \structural
element[s]" representing \the (sub-)structures of lexicographic articles providing
information about entries, senses or sub-entries". Individuals of the class Entry
then are linked to Ontolex-Lemon entries via the entry object property with
the latter relating Entry to \an element that represents the actual information
provided by that component in the lexicographic resource". The lexicog module
makes a good start at addressing the modelling issues raised by the presence of
di erent dictionary views as identi ed by the TEI guidelines. However as we will
argue in Section 3 there are important kinds of information relevant to
modelling lexicographic resources which are still not covered by the combination of
Ontolex-Lemon and lexicog.
2.3
        </p>
      </sec>
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        <title>CIDOC-CRM and FRBRoo</title>
        <p>
          The CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CIDOC-CRM)7 is an
eventbased conceptual model or ontology that was initially developed for the cultural
heritage domain with the aim of facilitating the harmonisation and integration
4 The commnunity page is here: https://www.w3.org/community/ontolex/; the
guidelines can be found here: https://www.w3.org/2016/05/ontolex/.
5 One well-known example of this is when dictionaries violate the Ontolex-Lemon
model constraint requiring one part of speech per Lexical Entry
6 This and the other following lexicog quotes are taken from the guidelines to be found
at https://www.w3.org/2019/09/lexicog/
7 http://www.cidoc-crm.org/
of data arising from di erent cultural heritage organisations [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref5">5</xref>
          ]. CIDOC-CRM
makes a clear distinction between endurants and perdurants, i.e., between entities
with a persistent identity that may orginate, survive or terminate in events, and
temporal concepts which happen rather than maintaining a stable identity over
time. The Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR)
entity relationship model, instead, was developed by the International
Federation of Library Associations and Institutions as a conceptual model for
the classi cation of intellectual products in bibliographic databases and library
catalogues [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref4">4</xref>
          ]. FRBR is well known for its four-fold classi cation of bibliographic
entities based on the distinction between a Work , an Expression , a
Manifestation and an Item . The distinction is an extremely pertinent one for our
discussion as we will see in Section 3. We refer in what follows to the version of
this distinction introduced in FRBRoo, an ontology based on FRBR and which
is harmonised with CIDOC-CRM [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref2">2</xref>
          ]8:
{ F1 Work: \[C]omprises distinct concepts or combinations of concepts
identi ed in artistic and intellectual expressions [...] The substance of Work is
ideas" [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref2">2</xref>
          ]. Note that in the case of dictionaries this would encompass the
TEI lexical view;
{ F2 Expression: \[C]omprises the intellectual or artistic realisations of works
in the form of identi able immaterial objects, such as texts, poems [...] or any
combination of such forms that have objectively recognisable structures"[
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref2">2</xref>
          ].
8 Note that FRBRoo class identi ers are pre xed by the letter `F' and a number.
In the case of dictionaries we claim that this description encompasses the
TEI editorial view;
{ Originally one class in the FRBR model, Manifestation, this latter
corresponds to two separate classes in FRBRoo: F3 Manifestation Product Type
and F4 Manifestation Singleton. The former class is de ned as \[de ning]
all of the features or traits that instances of F5 Item normally display in
order that they may be recognised as copies of a particular publication" [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref2">2</xref>
          ];
the latter as \[comprising] physical objects that each carry an instance of F2
Expression, and that were produced as unique objects" [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref2">2</xref>
          ]. In the case of
dictionaries F3 Manifestation Product Type encompasses the TEI typographic
view;
{ F5 Item: \[C]omprises physical objects" [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref2">2</xref>
          ] such as speci c physical copies of
dictionaries kept at libraries or academic institutions. This class is associated
with the kind of metadata information that is usually contained within the
TEI header element.
        </p>
        <p>These FRBRoo classes (together with various others included in the ontology)
are ideal for describing those aspects of a lexicographic resource which we
mentioned above and which are related to its metadata (including those described
in the typographical and lexical views). For instance, we can classify a
multiedition dictionary as a F15 Complex Work with its di erent individual editions
classed as instances of F15 Individual Work. Each of these di erent editions can
then be described at the level of F2 Expression in order to specify, for example,
the wording of individual entries. Moreover we can also describe the dictionary
at the level of F3 Manifestation Product Type in order to specify the
content and placement of images and their relation to the text (this is important
in the case of illustrated dictionaries). FRBRoo also allows for the modelling
of dictionaries which have been translated from one language to another (such
as, for instance, the well-known Liddell-Scott-Jones Ancient Greek-English
lexicon which has been translated into several languages, including Modern Greek).
Other than these bene ts however, the use of an ontology to model a
lexicographic resource, and especially one that has been aligned with a popular top
level ontology (CIDOC-CRM in this case), helps to improve the interoperability
and re-usability of the resulting dataset.</p>
        <p>Once more it is worth emphasising that dictionaries are both cultural
artefacts and highly structured descriptions of linguistic phenomena. It is also worth
underlining the importance of being able to relate together these aspects of the
same resource. It would be useful, for instance, to be able to represent how
lexical content changes over time and across di erent editions of a dictionary. We
should also be able to describe the linguistic claims that a dictionary makes
regardless of their truth or falsity (this latter as determined by an editor or
curator). This would allow for a higher level description of such claims as well
as for the integration of data from di erent lexical and lexicographic sources
and/or the enrichment of single lexicographic resources. In order to further
develop this point, and to look at these issues in more detail, we will look at a
speci c kind of lexicographic data in the next section, namely lexicographic
citations/attestations; this will also provide us with a use case which we will model
below using our new approach.
3</p>
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      <title>Citations and Attestations</title>
      <p>Dictionaries very often contain citations under individual entries. This is
especially typical of scholarly or encyclopedic dictionaries such as the Oxford
English Dictionary or the Liddell-Scott-Jones Ancient Greek-English Lexicon (LSJ)
where individual lexicographic articles are often associated with large numbers
of them. Here citations are usually meant to show that a lexical unit, a sense,
a form, or indeed any kind of linguistic phenomena is attested to in a given
text or corpus. Of course these purported citations can sometimes be erroneous.
This is the case, for example, where the text cited doesn't actually attest to
the phenomenon described due to a misreading of the source or even where it
doesn't exist in the form which the lexicographer hypothesised. In these kinds
of situation we are concerned with facts that pertain to (at least) two di erent
levels of description: facts at the level of the work (a dictionary citing a text as
attesting a given phenomenon) and at the level of content (the phenomenon is
or is not attested to by the text in question).</p>
      <p>
        A couple of examples may be useful here; both of them are taken from [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref7">7</xref>
        ]9.
In that article we looked at one of the citations in the LSJ lexicographic article
for the word n¸maloc (anomalos). This citation was marked by the
abbreviation `cj'10 and referred to a critical reconstruction of a work based on existing
fragments. The citation was subsequently excluded from another Ancient Greek
dictionary which was closely based on the LSJ thus hinting at its unreliability. We
can therefore describe this citation both according to which dictionaries or
lexical resources it is found in (and which editions) as well as whether the cited text
really attests to the phenomenon in question. The other example concerns the
Italian verb riprovare which means both11 `to try something again'12 and `to
scold, rebuke'. The well known Italian language dictionary Il vocabolario Treccani
[
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref10">10</xref>
        ] (which we will refer to as Treccani from hereon in) lists these as two separate
lexicographic articles: riprovare1 (`to try again') and riprovare2 (`to scold')13
The entry for riprovare1 cites the motto of the short lived but highly in uential
16th scienti c society L'Accademia del Cimento (AdC), i.e., provando e
9 Note that although we presented these same examples in that article our approach
was di erent in that work and didn't involve the use of CIDOC-CRM or any upper
ontology for structuring information at di erent levels of description.
10 This is usually found in critical apparatuses and stands for the Latin conicit
`conjectures'.
11 In fact we are dealing with two homonymous lexical units here.
12 Deriving in this instance from provare which has the meaning of `to try' and the
pre x ri- which adds the sense of repetition.
13 See the online version of both entries can be
found here:https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/riprovare1/,
https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/riprovare2/
riprovando (`trying and trying again'). This motto derives from a terzina of
Dante's Divine Comedy (Par. III, 1-3): \Quel sol che pria d'amor mi scaldo 'l
petto,/di bella verita m'avea scoverto,/provando e riprovando, il dolce aspetto".
The Treccani entry however directs the dictionary user to the second sense of
the entry for the verb provare14 `to try'. There it is explained that although the
motto derives from Par. III, 1-3, it does not, in fact, mean the same thing as
it does in the latter15. The Treccani entry for riprovare2 also cites the use of
the gerund form riprovando in the same passage of Dante, but in this case it
is as an actual attestation. Another authoritative Italian language dictionary,
Il Grande Dizionario della Lingua Italiana (GDLL) [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1">1</xref>
        ]16, cites both the motto
of L'Accademia del Cimento and the same terzina from the Divine Comedy in
its entry for riprovare1 (and note that riprovare1 and riprovare2 in the GDLL
are synonymous with riprovare1 and riprovare2 respectively in Treccani). The
GDLL makes the contradictory claim, however, that both cited texts (the AdC
motto and the terzina from the Paradiso) do attest to the entry in question,
namely riprovare1.
      </p>
      <p>We can summarise the claims made above in the following series of
statements: (1) Treccani's entry for riprovare1 cites the AdC motto; (2) Treccani's
entry for riprovare2 cites Par. III, 1-3 as an attestation; (3) GDLL's entry for
riprovare1 cites Par. III, 1-3 and the AdC mottos as attestations; (4) riprovare2
is attested by the AdC motto and Par. III, 1-3; (5) riprovare1 is attested by the
AdC motto but not Par. III, 1-3.</p>
      <p>The rst three items in the list are true statements about the lexicons which
they refer to; they describe the existence of three successful citational
(`performative') speech acts. These statements only deal indirectly with lexical units
or their usages. Rather, they are primarily concerned with documents or works
and the rhetorical/organizational structure pertaining to them. The other two
statements, those which we have numbered 4 and 5, instead, describe the direct
relationship between an item in a lexicon and a text which evidences it, or
better, attests to its past use. The fourth statement is false but the fth one is true.
However in neither case does this follow from the truth (or falsity) of the rst
three statements. Statements 4 and 5 are at the level of content whereas the
rst three are at the level of metadata. If we were to create a linked data
lexicographic resource combining the two dictionaries listed above (based on a lexical
view) and including relevant metadata information about the original sources,
then we could include 1,2,3, and 5 as RDF statements but adding 5 would be to
add a false statement. In case we are not sure about which claims are true (or
which claims we would endorse by creating a curated version of the information
in these dictionaries) then we should stay at the metadata level. We could also
14 https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/provare/
15 \[M]otto assunto verso il 1666 dall'Accademia orentina del Cimento, tratto dalla</p>
      <p>
        Divina Commedia (Par. III, 3, dove pero signi ca `approvando e disapprovando')"
16 The dictionary is consultable here as a collection of scans:
http://www.gdli.it/; the image of the page for riprovare can be found here:
http://www.gdli.it/JPG/GDLI16/00727.jpg.
publish the GDLL with provenance metadata of course without curating it, or
publish separate statements about single entries or senses as nanopublications
[
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref8">8</xref>
        ] but it would also be useful to have the possibility of putting together a single
dataset in a way that integrates together this information deriving from multiple
sources. In the next section, we look at how we can model this situation with
linked data ontologies.
4
      </p>
    </sec>
    <sec id="sec-4">
      <title>Our Proposed Approach</title>
      <p>
        Our intention is to create bridges between the models and vocabularies which
we have mentioned so far. We do this through the de nition of a number of
new classes and properties. This should facilitate a more extensive modelling of
lexicographic resources and at multiple levels of description. The rst of these
new classes is Lexicographic Work. This is a subclass of both the FRBRoo class
F1 Work and the Ontolex-Lemon class Lexicon. We de ne it as follows:
Lexicographic Work comprises concepts or combinations of concepts for
representing/describing the lexicon for a given language community or communities or
domain. As F1 Work is a subclass of the CIDOC-CRM class E89 Propositional
Object17 we can view individuals of Lexicographic Work as sets of propositions
about lexemes and related linguistic concepts belonging to a lexicon. The second
new class that we introduce is Lexicographic Expression. This is a subclass of
the FRBRoo class F2 Expression and the Ontolex-Lemon class Lexicographic
Resource. We de ne it as follows: Lexicographic Expression comprises an
intellectual realisation of the description of a lexicon as a structured text. In other
words, it is a text viewed apart from a speci c typographic realisation: a
sequence of words that has an additional organisation in terms of entries, senses
(de ned as a sub-part of a lexicographical article that discusses a meaning of
a lexical unit), forms, etc. By making these newly de ned classes subclasses of
both Ontolex-Lemon and FRBRoo classes we can take advantage of properties
and related classes from both ontologies (as well as from the CIDOC-CRM).
Moreover, and analogously to the lexicog class Entry, we propose the creation of
new subclasses of the lexicog class Lexicographic Component, corresponding to
senses and forms as parts of a typographical view. We also envision an extensive
use of other Semantic Web ontologies for provenance metadata and in
particular of Prov-O 18 and the Citation Typology Ontology (CiTO) (part of the
SPAR suite of ontologies for the publishing domain19). We use the object
property cites from the latter ontology in our example below20. This property has a
series of sub-properties corresponding to di erent kinds of citations (e.g., cites
17 De ned as \sets of propositions about real or mental things and that are documented
as single units or serve as topic of discourse"[
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref2">2</xref>
        ].
18 https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/
19 http://www.sparontologies.net/
20 This property applies to cases where \[t]he citing entity cites the cited entity,
either directly and explicitly (as in the reference list of a journal article), indirectly
(e.g. by citing a more recent paper by the same group on the same topic), or
imas source document, cites for information). We have decided to de ne another
subproperty of cites or more precisely of the CiTO property cites as evidence.
This new property is cites as attestation and covers cases where the citing
entity cites the cited entity as attesting to the existence of a linguistic phenomenon
or phenomena. We also make use of the new Frequency Attestation and Corpus
Information (FrAC) module being drafted by the W3C OntoLex group in our
example encoding. Although this is still currently under development, the
module guidelines are in a fairly advanced state of preparation and we have chosen
classes and properties in our example encoding whose de nitions are, by now,
stable21. These include Attestation, representing attestations of linguistic
\observables" in texts and the properties attestation, which relates together these
observables and the texts which attest them, and locus which represents
locations in a text. In the rest of this section we describe our proposal for encoding
the riprovare example from Section 3 using the vocabularies/ontologies we have
mentioned above and the new properties we have just de ned. In Figure 2 we
show the two entries both at the level of the Lexicographic Work and at the
level of Lexicographic Expression. We can use OWL the sameAs property to
link together t riprovare1 and b riprovare2 (note that we would not do this in
the case of the two Entry individuals te riprovare1 and be riprovare2). In Fig 3
instead we present the relationship between the two entries and the same textual
fragment of Dante's Divine Comedy (which we have de ned as an individual of
the FRBRoo class Expression Fragment) as de ned above, using the FRaC class
plicitly (e.g. as in artistic quotations or parodies, or in cases of plagiarism)". See
https://sparontologies.github.io/cito/current/cito.html
21 The latest draft can be found here:
https://github.com/ontolex/frequencyattestation-corpus-information
Attestation and the properties attestation and locus. Note that we have only
represented the fact that GDLL cites the Paradiso as an attestation at the level
of Expression and not at the level of Work/Lexicon (although we have done so
in the case of Treccani because of the veridicity of the description of the latter).
The work which we have described in this article represents an attempt to use
ontologies to model Semantic Web lexicographic resources at di erent levels
of description. We have found CIDOC-CRM and its aligned/related ontologies
(together with pre-existing lexical ontologies such as Ontolex-Lemon) to be
especially useful in this regard. Indeed we are currently working on representing
linguistic hypotheses (such as etymologies) in lexical resources using CRMSci.
Furthermore, the authors of the current work are involved in the digitization of
three editions of the historically signi cant Portuguese dictionary, Diccionario
da Lingua Portugueza (Dictionary of the Portuguese Language), by Antonio de
Morais Silva, as part of a Portuguese national project, MORDigital. The
intention is to make these dictionaries made available in both TEI-XML as well as in
linked data. This project will give us the opportunity to apply and to test the
approach which we have proposed in the current article on a large scale, real-life
dataset.
      </p>
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    <sec id="sec-5">
      <title>Acknowledgements</title>
      <p>Supported by the MORDigital { Digitalizac~ao do Diccionario da Lingua
Portugueza de Antonio de Morais Silva [PTDC/LLT-LIN/6841/2020] project
nanced by Portuguese national funding through the FCT { Fundac~ao para a
Ci^encia e Tecnologia and the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and
innovation programme under grant agreement No 731015 (ELEXIS { European
Lexicographic Infrastructure).</p>
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