SAOLhist.se – för allmänt och vetenskapligt bruk

The Swedish Academy Glossary (Svenska Akademiens ordlista, SAOL), a normative glossary with particular focus on spelling, inflexion, and pro-nunciation, has appeared since 1874. In 2006, the 13th edition appeared. The second, third, fourth and fifth editions were more or less reprints of the first edition. Thus, the 2006 edition may be regarded as the ninth (au-tonomous) SAOL edition. The most important parts of these nine edi-tions, especially the complete sets of lemmas, have been transformed into a database. The database may be thought of as a matrix with more than 200 000 rows and eleven columns (the nine SAOL editions plus the Dalin dictionary, plus a column to the left with all lemmas that have occurred in at least one SAOL edition). The interface is very flexible, allowing the inclusion of other dictionaries. From each square of the matrix there is a link to a facsimile version of the full corresponding dictionary article. Several advanced searches are possible, e.g.: which words were added and omitted between any two consecutive editions, or: has the frequency of a particular suffix increased or decreased over time

DiLiA -- The Digital Library Assistant

In this paper we present the digital library assistant (DiLiA). The system aims at augmenting the search in digital libraries in several dimensions. In the project advanced information visualisation methods are developed for user controlled interactive search. The interaction model has been designed in a way that it is transparent to the user and easy to use. In addition, information extraction (IE) methods have been developed in DiLiA to make the content more easily accessible, this includes the identification and extraction of technical terms (TTs) – single and multi word terms – as well as the extraction of binary relations based on the extracted terms. In DiLiA we follow a hybrid information extraction approach – a combination of metadata and document processing