| Abstract: |
This paper is meant to present some work on the electronic dictionary of Slovak collocations realised at the University of St. Cyrilus and Methodius in Trnava in cooperation with Slovak National Corpus, department of L'. Štúr Linguistics Institute in Bratislava. The project on Slovak collocations started in 2007 is the first of its kind in Slovakia and is aimed at the registration and description of multiword lexemes and phrasemes as well as typical collocations with wide collocability, they are frequentially differentiated and so limited in that way (cf. Ďurčo 2007a, 2008b). The dictionary provides an overview of the combinatorial behavior of words, primarily the most frequent nouns extracted from the Slovak National Corpus database. The combinatorial potentials of words are the basis for the creation of so-called collocational templates which are basis for the patterns of collocations (Ďurčo 2007b, 2008a). The WIKI system used for editing the dictionary offers special tools and has many advantages such as simple editing syntax, multi-editing, history of editing, instant updating, forum discussion (which provides interaction between editors), available virtual access, verification system of version changes and many others. The final version of the dictionary will not only be available for users electronically but also in a published form. In this paper we focus on some editing techniques and discuss a couple problems we have encountered. |