<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hello,</DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Concerning a manual building of the lexicon, I'm sure there are more experienced grammar writers in the list that could provide a more accurate answer than me.</DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">However, almost one month ago I built semi-automatically a lexicon in LexDB format of almost 40.000 entries for the Modern Greek resource grammar (<A href="http://www.delph-in.net/mgrg/">http://www.delph-in.net/mgrg/</A>)* within some minutes using a list of words separated into sublists according to their morphological attributes. The lexicon will have to be post-edited parallel to the grammar development of course.</DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The procedure will be described in my MSC thesis, which I can send you as soon as it has been submitted, revised and evaluated. </DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">So in that case, I would say that the time depends on the lexical resources available and the form of your grammar.</DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Sincerely</DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Alexandros<BR><BR></DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">* The lexicon is not available online yet</DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Ursprüngliche Mail ----<BR>Von: Petter Haugereid <petterha@hf.ntnu.no><BR>An: matrix@delph-in.net<BR>CC: Gertrud Faasz <s26519322@tuks.co.za><BR>Gesendet: Dienstag, den 23. Januar 2007, 17:53:46 Uhr<BR>Betreff: [matrix] Lexicon building<BR><BR> <DIV>Dear list members,<BR><BR>I have been contacted by Gertrud Faasz, a PhD student in Pretoria, South<BR>Africa, which is about to build a grammar for Northern Sotho. She<BR>wonders how much time it takes to build a lexicon with 30000 entries:<BR><BR>"And maybe you have information about the workload, I mean the <BR>person-time estimation for setting up a lexicon of, let's say, about <BR>30,000 entries? This work will be done by students being trained on the <BR>job and I must find some soon."<BR><BR>Can any of you help me to give an estimate?<BR><BR>Best regards,<BR><BR>Petter<BR><BR>-- <BR>Petter Haugereid<BR>PhD-student<BR>Dept. of Language and Communication Studies, NTNU<BR>7491 Trondheim<BR>Norway<BR>Tel: +47 735 96688<BR>Fax: +47 735 91030<BR>E-mail: petterha@hf.ntnu.no<BR>Homepage: <A href="http://www.hf.ntnu.no/hf/isk/Ansatte/petter.haugereid/Home" target=_blank>http://www.hf.ntnu.no/hf/isk/Ansatte/petter.haugereid/Home</A></DIV></DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><BR></DIV></div><br> <hr size=1>Yahoo! 360° – Bloggen und Leute treffen. <a href=http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=41052/*http://de.360.yahoo.com/>Erstellen Sie jetzt Ihre eigene Seite – kostenlos!</a>. </body></html>