Description : This is an online edition of An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, or a dictionary of "Old English". The dictionary records the state of the English language as it was used between ca. 700-1100 AD by the Anglo-Saxon inhabitants of the British Isles.
This project is based on a digital edition of An Anglo-Saxon dictionary, based on the manuscript collections of the late Joseph Bosworth (the so called Main Volume, first edition 1898) and its Supplement (first edition 1921), edited by Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller, today the largest complete dictionary of Old English (one day to be hopefully supplanted by the DOE). Alistair Campbell's "enlarged addenda and corrigenda" from 1972 are not public domain and are therefore not part of the online dictionary. Please see the front & back matter of the paper dictionary for further information, prefaces and lists of references & contractions.
The digitization project was initiated by Sean Crist in 2001 as a part of his Germanic Lexicon Project and many individuals and institutions have contributed to this project. Check out the original GLP webpage and the old Bosworth-Toller offline application webpage (to be updated). Currently the project is hosted by the Faculty of Arts, Charles University.
In 2010, the data from the GLP were converted to create the current site. Care was taken to preserve the typography of the original dictionary, but also provide a modern, user friendly interface for contemporary users.
In 2013, the entries were structurally re-tagged and the original typography was abandoned, though the immediate access to the scans of the paper dictionary was preserved.
Our aim is to reach beyond a simple digital edition and create an online environment dedicated to all interested in Old English and Anglo-Saxon culture. Feel free to join in the editing of the Dictionary, commenting on its numerous entries or participating in the discussions at our forums.
We hope that by drawing the attention of the community of Anglo-Saxonists to our site and joining our resources, we may create a more useful tool for everybody. The most immediate project to draw on the corrected and tagged data of the Dictionary is a Morphological Analyzer of Old English (currently under development).
We are grateful for the generous support of the Charles University Grant Agency and for the free hosting at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University. The site is currently maintained and developed by Ondrej Tichy et al. at the Department of English Language and ELT Methodology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic).
The CzEngClass synonym verb lexicon is a result of a project investigating semantic ‘equivalence’ of verb senses and their valency behavior in parallel Czech-English language resources, i.e., relating verb meanings with respect to contextually-based verb synonymy. The lexicon entries are linked to PDT-Vallex (http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-097C-0000-0023-4338-F), EngVallex (http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-097C-0000-0023-4337-2), CzEngVallex (http://hdl.handle.net/11234/1-1512), FrameNet (https://framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu/fndrupal/), VerbNet (http://verbs.colorado.edu/verbnet/index.html), PropBank (http://verbs.colorado.edu/%7Empalmer/projects/ace.html), Ontonotes (http://verbs.colorado.edu/html_groupings/), and Czech (http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-097C-0000-0001-4880-3) and English Wordnets (https://wordnet.princeton.edu/). Part of the dataset is a file reflecting annotators choices for assignment of verbs to classes.
The CzEngClass synonym verb lexicon is a result of a project investigating semantic ‘equivalence’ of verb senses and their valency behavior in parallel Czech-English language resources, i.e., relating verb meanings with respect to contextually-based verb synonymy. The lexicon entries are linked to PDT-Vallex (http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-097C-0000-0023-4338-F), EngVallex (http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-097C-0000-0023-4337-2), CzEngVallex (http://hdl.handle.net/11234/1-1512), FrameNet (https://framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu/fndrupal/), VerbNet (http://verbs.colorado.edu/verbnet/index.html), PropBank (http://verbs.colorado.edu/%7Empalmer/projects/ace.html), Ontonotes (http://verbs.colorado.edu/html_groupings/), and Czech (http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-097C-0000-0001-4880-3) and English Wordnets (https://wordnet.princeton.edu/). Part of the dataset are files reflecting annotators choices and agreement for assignment of verbs to classes.
The CzEngClass synonym verb lexicon is a result of a project investigating semantic ‘equivalence’ of verb senses and their valency behavior in parallel Czech-English language resources, i.e., relating verb meanings with respect to contextually-based verb synonymy. The lexicon entries are linked to PDT-Vallex (http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-097C-0000-0023-4338-F), EngVallex (http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-097C-0000-0023-4337-2), CzEngVallex (http://hdl.handle.net/11234/1-1512), FrameNet (https://framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu/fndrupal/), VerbNet (http://verbs.colorado.edu/verbnet/index.html), PropBank (http://verbs.colorado.edu/%7Empalmer/projects/ace.html), Ontonotes (http://verbs.colorado.edu/html_groupings/), and Czech (http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-097C-0000-0001-4880-3) and English Wordnets (https://wordnet.princeton.edu/).
CzEngVallex is a bilingual valency lexicon of corresponding Czech and English verbs. It connects 20835 aligned valency frame pairs (verb senses) which are translations of each other, aligning their arguments as well. The CzEngVallex serves as a powerful, real-text-based database of frame-to-frame and subsequently argument-to-argument pairs and can be used for example for machine translation applications. It uses the data from the Prague Czech-English Dependency Treebank project (PCEDT 2.0, http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-097C-0000-0015-8DAF-4) and it also takes advantage of two existing valency lexicons: PDT-Vallex for Czech and EngVallex for English, using the same view of valency (based on the Functional Generative Description theory). The CzEngVallex is available in an XML format in the LINDAT/CLARIN repository, and also in a searchable form (see the “More Apps” tab) interlinked with PDT-Vallex (http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-097C-0000-0023-4338-F),EngVallex (http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-097C-0000-0023-4337-2) and with examples from the PCEDT.
The SynSemClass synonym verb lexicon is a result of a project investigating semantic ‘equivalence’ of verb senses and their valency behavior in parallel Czech-English language resources, i.e., relating verb meanings with respect to contextually-based verb synonymy. The lexicon entries are linked to PDT-Vallex (http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-097C-0000-0023-4338-F), EngVallex (http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-097C-0000-0023-4337-2), CzEngVallex (http://hdl.handle.net/11234/1-1512), FrameNet (https://framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu/fndrupal/), VerbNet (http://verbs.colorado.edu/verbnet/index.html), PropBank (http://verbs.colorado.edu/%7Empalmer/projects/ace.html), Ontonotes (http://verbs.colorado.edu/html_groupings/), and English Wordnet (https://wordnet.princeton.edu/). Part of the dataset are files reflecting interannotator agreement.
The SynSemClass 3.5 synonym verb lexicon investigates semantic ‘equivalence’ of verb senses and their valency behavior in parallel Czech-English and German-English language resources, i.e., relates verb meanings with respect to contextually-based verb synonymy.
The Czech lexicon entries are linked to PDT-Vallex (http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-097C-0000-0023-4338-F), Vallex (http://hdl.handle.net/11234/1-3524), and CzEngVallex (http://hdl.handle.net/11234/1-1512).
The English lexicon entries are linked to EngVallex (http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-097C-0000-0023-4337-2), CzEngVallex (http://hdl.handle.net/11234/1-1512), FrameNet (https://framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu/fndrupal/), VerbNet (https://uvi.colorado.edu/ and http://verbs.colorado.edu/verbnet/index.html), PropBank (http://propbank.github.io/), Ontonotes (http://clear.colorado.edu/compsem/index.php?page=lexicalresources&sub=ontonotes), and English Wordnet (https://wordnet.princeton.edu/).
The German lexicon entries are linked to Woxikon (https://synonyme.woxikon.de), E-VALBU (https://grammis.ids-mannheim.de/verbvalenz), and GUP (http://alanakbik.github.io/multilingual.html; https://github.com/UniversalDependencies/UD_German-GSD).
The SynSemClass synonym verb lexicon version 4.0 investigates, with respect to contextually-based verb synonymy, semantic ‘equivalence’ of Czech, English, and German verb senses and their valency behavior in parallel Czech-English and German-English language resources. SynSemClass 4.0 is a multilingual event-type ontology based on classes of synonymous verb senses, complemented with semantic roles and links to existing semantic lexicons. The version 4.0 is not only enriched by an additional number of classes but in the context of content hierarchy, some classes have been merged. Compared to the older versions of the lexicon, the novelty is the definitions of classes and the definitions of roles.
Czech lexicon entries are linked to PDT-Vallex (http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-097C-0000-0023-4338-F), Vallex (http://hdl.handle.net/11234/1-3524), and CzEngVallex (http://hdl.handle.net/11234/1-1512). The English lexicon entries are linked to EngVallex (http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-097C-0000-0023-4337-2), CzEngVallex (http://hdl.handle.net/11234/1-1512), FrameNet (https://framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu/fndrupal/), VerbNet (https://uvi.colorado.edu/ and http://verbs.colorado.edu/verbnet/index.html), PropBank (http://propbank.github.io/), Ontonotes (http://clear.colorado.edu/compsem/index.php?page=lexicalresources&sub=ontonotes), and English Wordnet (https://wordnet.princeton.edu/). The German lexicon entries are linked to Woxikon (https://synonyme.woxikon.de), E-VALBU (https://grammis.ids-mannheim.de/verbvalenz), and GUP (http://alanakbik.github.io/multilingual.html; https://github.com/UniversalDependencies/UD_German-GSD).
The SynSemClass synonym verb lexicon version 5.0 is a multilingual resource that enriches previous editions of this event-type ontology with a new language, Spanish. The existing languages, English, Czech and German, are further substantially extended by a larger number of classes. SSC 5.0 data also contain lists (in a separate removed_cms.zip file) with originally (pre-)proposed but later rejected class members. All languages are organized into classes and have links to other lexical sources. In addition to the existing links, links to Spanish sources have been added.
The Spanish entries are linked to
ADESSE (http://adesse.uvigo.es/),
Spanish SenSem (http://grial.edu.es/sensem/lexico?idioma=en),
Spanish WordNet (https://adimen.si.ehu.es/cgi-bin/wei/public/wei.consult.perl),
AnCora (https://clic.ub.edu/corpus/en/ancoraverb_es), and
Spanish FrameNet (http://sfn.spanishfn.org/SFNreports.php).
The English entries are linked to
EngVallex (http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-097C-0000-0023-4337-2),
CzEngVallex (http://hdl.handle.net/11234/1-1512),
FrameNet (https://framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu/)
VerbNet (https://uvi.colorado.edu/ and http://verbs.colorado.edu/verbnet/index.html),
PropBank (http://propbank.github.io/),
Ontonotes (http://clear.colorado.edu/compsem/index.php?page=lexicalresources&sub=ontonotes), and
English Wordnet (https://wordnet.princeton.edu/).
Czech entries are linked to
PDT-Vallex (http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-097C-0000-0023-4338-F),
Vallex (http://hdl.handle.net/11234/1-3524), and
CzEngVallex (http://hdl.handle.net/11234/1-1512).
The German entries are linked to
Woxikon (https://synonyme.woxikon.de),
E-VALBU (https://grammis.ids-mannheim.de/verbvalenz), and
GUP (http://alanakbik.github.io/multilingual.html and https://github.com/UniversalDependencies/UD_German-GSD).
The SynSemClass synonym verb lexicon is a result of a project investigating semantic ‘equivalence’ of verb senses and their valency behavior in parallel Czech-English language resources, i.e., relating verb meanings with respect to contextually-based verb synonymy. The lexicon entries are linked to PDT-Vallex (http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-097C-0000-0023-4338-F), EngVallex (http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-097C-0000-0023-4337-2), CzEngVallex (http://hdl.handle.net/11234/1-1512), FrameNet (https://framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu/fndrupal/), VerbNet (https://uvi.colorado.edu/ and http://verbs.colorado.edu/verbnet/index.html), PropBank (http://propbank.github.io/), Ontonotes (http://clear.colorado.edu/compsem/index.php?page=lexicalresources&sub=ontonotes), and English Wordnet (https://wordnet.princeton.edu/).