ACTA LINGUISTICA VOL. 41 (AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LINGUISTIC, 1992-1993)
1993 / 1-4. sz. - KIEFER FERENC: Preface
PREFACE The present collection contains papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Computational Lexicography and Text Research (COMPLEX '92) held in Budapest, October 4 through 8, 1992, and organized jointly by the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Laboratoire et d'Automatique Documentaire et Linguistique (LADL), CNRSUniversité Paris 7. The aim of the conference was to bring together researchers who are experts in both computational linguistics and lexicography. Papers were invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational lexicography, including, but not limited to, the followings: lexical databases and electronic dictionaries, problems in building text corpora, lexical workstation, - retrieval softwares for SGML texts, - lexicons and other tools for machine translation. One of the central issues addressed in this collection concerns the machineaided compilation of dictionaries on the basis of text corpora. The computeraided process of producing lexical descriptions is most often based on domainspecific corpora. Most lexicographic work reported in the papers is directed toward the compilation of monolingual dictionaries, though the preoccupation with the problems of bilingual dictionaries seems gaining ground. Thus, in computational lexicography one of the most intriguing questions is the use of bilingual reference corpora for translation. From among the more recent research topics mention should also be made of the analysis of compounds and idioms, of the recognition of complex patterns (verbs with their complements) and of the acquisition of semantic information. On the other hand, quite a few of the more traditional topics of computational lexicography are still not exhausted. To these belong automatic lemmatization, automatic lexical search in various types of text corpora, morphological analysis and parsing techniques. Ferenc Kiefer Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest