Leksikonideks

Leksikonideks is a term used in linguistics and lexicography to describe a class of approaches and infrastructures for building, linking, and sharing lexicons. It emphasizes modular design, open data formats, and interoperability among dictionaries, corpora, and NLP tools. The concept envisions lexicons as interconnected components rather than isolated entries, enabling cross-lingual linking, versioning, and collaborative curation. The term is used in theoretical discussions to describe this family of systems and practices rather than a single specification.

Definition and scope: Leksikonideks covers data models that represent lemmas, senses, parts of speech, morphology, examples, etymology, pronunciation, and semantic relations. It also encompasses metadata for provenance, licensing, and editorial history, as well as APIs and data exchange formats that allow lexicons to be integrated into applications and research workflows. The goal is to facilitate reuse, comparison, and integration of lexical resources across projects and languages.

Core components and features include a core lexicon schema, modular extensions for domain-specific terms, cross-references between languages, and support for multilingual glosses and sense alignment. Data formats are typically machine-readable and lightweight (for example JSON-LD or RDF-like structures) to enable automated processing and linking to ontologies and existing lexical resources.

Applications and governance: Use cases include digital dictionaries, language learning platforms, linguistic research databases, and NLP pipelines that rely on lexical information for parsing, disambiguation, and generation. Leksikonideks also supports collaborative workflows, version control, and audit trails to manage edits and ensure data quality. The concept is tied to broader movements in computational lexicography, knowledge graphs, and open data initiatives, seeking shared standards and governance to reduce fragmentation in lexical data.