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Lexical Import
Knowledge to disambiguate and import language data into current lexical software
Lexicons are, by nature, structured documents. various standards have been proposed, used, and abandoned over the years. This specialist competency involves disambiguation (removing any doubt about the classification and relationship) of data and importation into a modern lexicography program. This is often a non-trivial task when importing poorly structured or unstructured data. Once the data is clean, structured, and in an appropriate encoding, it can then be imported into a modern lexicography tool.
Can disambiguate and import language data into current lexical software
Growth Activities
The following activities have been identified to achieve comptency in Lexical Import in levels from Learner to Expert.
Identify legacy markup commonly used in language data for your entity (SFM, MDF, LIFT, etc.)
Understand how to restructure lexical data to make it unambigious and learn to use relevant import/conversion tools
Use automated processes to restructure and disambiguate lexical data and import into a current lexical database
Teach others to disambiguate and import lexical data into structured lexical tools.
Convert unformatted dictionaries (e.g., Word, PDF) into a structure format and import them into the recommended tool.