Lexikoneinträgen

Lexikoneinträge, singular Lexikoneintrag, are the individual records contained in a lexicon or dictionary. They describe a word or term and provide information useful for understanding its form, meaning, and use. In traditional lexicography they form the building blocks of entries in print dictionaries; in modern digital resources they are represented as structured data units that can be linked and reused.

A typical Lexikoneintrag includes several elements: the lemma (the base form), part of speech, pronunciation, and inflectional information or a paradigm; one or more senses, each with a definition (gloss), usage examples, and sometimes notes on style or regional variation; etymology tracing the word's origin; and semantic or relational data such as synonyms, antonyms, hyponyms, or broader terms. Cross-references to related entries and links to related forms or translations may also be included. There may be information about frequency, register, or attestedness.

In digital lexicons, entries are encoded in machine-readable formats and conform to standards such as TEI LexEntry, the Lexical Markup Framework (LMF), or OntoLex-Lemon, enabling interoperability between dictionaries, corpora, and NLP tools. Lexikoneinträge are used in natural language processing for tasks such as word sense disambiguation, part-of-speech tagging, information retrieval, and machine translation, as well as in linguistic research and language education.

The granularity and scope of entries vary by resource. Challenges include accurately capturing polysemy, diachronic change, and semantic relations, managing neologisms, and ensuring consistency across large multilingual dictionaries. Licensing and provenance are also considerations for digital lexicons.