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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110767377-021
Margunn Rauset, Gyri Smørdal Losnegaard, Helge Dyvik,
Paul Meurer, Rune Kyrkjebø, and Koenraad De Smedt
Words, Words!
Resources and Tools for Lexicography at the CLARINO Bergen
Centre
Abstract: The CLARINO Bergen Centre, which provides scholars with access
to digital language data and processing services, has in recent years provided
substantial services to research and development in lexicography. This chapter
describes the interplay between three major lexicography efforts and the centre.
Easy access to large corpora in CLARINO and powerful tools for searching and
analysing corpus materials help to secure an empirical foundation which far
exceeds the lexicographical resources and possibilities available to lexicogra-
phers in Norway only a few years ago.
Keywords: CLARINO, lexicography, dictionaries, Norwegian, Bokmål, Nynorsk,
corpora, treebanks, written standards
1 Introduction
With funding from the Research Council of Norway and a consortium of insti-
tutions, the CLARINO research infrastructure was established in the epony-
mous CLARINO project, which started in 2012. At present, four technical centres
and two knowledge centres embody Norway’s in-kind member contribution to
CLARIN ERIC. One of these centres is the CLARINO Bergen Centre,1 located at the
University of Bergen, in co-operation with the Norwegian School of Economics.
1 https://clarino.uib.no
Acknowledgements: The research infrastructure described in this chapter has been funded in
part by the Research Council of Norway under grants 295700 (CLARINO+), 208375 (CLARINO)
and 195323 (INESS) and by a consortium of institutions led by the University of Bergen. Revi-
sjonsprosjektet and NO-AH are both fully funded by the Norwegian Government’s Department of
Culture. The NAOB dictionary project is funded by the Norwegian Government’s Department of
Culture (about 80%) and by a number of non-profit foundations and funds (about 20%).
Margunn Rauset, Gyri Smørdal Losnegaard, Helge Dyvik, Paul Meurer, Rune Kyrkjebø, and
Koenraad De Smedt, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, e-mail: clarino@uib.no