Lexoj

Lexoj is a term used in linguistics and language technology to refer to a curated collection of lexical entries, effectively functioning as a lexicon or dictionary for a language or domain. The concept emphasizes a structured, machine-readable organization of words and forms rather than narrative descriptions of language.

Entries in a lexoj typically include a lemma, part of speech, pronunciation, morphology, definitions, sense relations, example sentences, regional or register notes, and frequency or usage data. Some lexoj also record etymology, semantic fields, collocations, and links to semantic networks or synonymy groups. In multilingual projects, a lexoj can include translations or cross-linguistic mappings between lemmas.

Lexoj can be implemented as databases, file-based dictionaries, or graph-structured resources. They are related to broader concepts such as the lexicon, vocabulary lists, and lexical databases like WordNet. The term is sometimes used in the context of language documentation, educational technologies, and natural language processing, where the quality and coverage of a lexoj influence parsing, tagging, and translation accuracy.

Practitioners create lexoj for languages with scarce resources, specialized domains (medicine, law), or for research into lexical semantics. Example entries illustrate how a single lemma can have multiple senses and forms across dialects, with cross-references to related lemmas. Thus, lexoj function as a foundational resource for both human reference and computational processing.