22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics

Abstract

Abstract This paper is a project report of the lexi-cographic Internet portal OWID, an Online Vocabulary Information System of German which is being built at the In-stitute of German Language in Mann-heim (IDS). Overall, the contents of the portal and its technical approaches will be presented. The lexical database is structured in a granular way which al-lows to extend possible search options for lexicographers. Against the back-ground of current research on using elec-tronic dictionaries, the project OWID is also working on first ideas of user-adapted access and user-adapted views of the lexicographic data. Due to the fact that the portal OWID comprises diction-aries which are available online it is pos-sible to change the design and functions of the website easily (in comparison to printed dictionaries). Ideas of implement-ing user-adapted views of the lexico-graphic data will be demonstrated by us-ing an example taken from one of the dictionaries of the portal, namely elexiko .