Das deutsch-ukrainische Online-Fachwörterbücherportal: Entwicklung und Datenmodellierung

Abstract The article deals with the developing of the German-Ukrainian online specialised dictionary portal that draws on the strengths of academic dictionary production and Internet lexicographic technology. Methodically, this is done by compiling German-Ukrainian specialized dictionaries, the digitisation of which is achieved within the framework of XML-based data modelling for Internet dictionaries in order to guarantee the software independence and longevity of the data. Such data modelling also allows the differentiation between subject areas, the retrieval of collocations, the search for word types as well as the statistical processing of frequencies with regard to their significance. The creation of dictionaries for the portal was realised in five steps. In the first step, a procedure for corpus conception was worked out that enables ad hoc generation of internet-based corpora. In the second step, language corpora were specifically prepared to implement corpus retrieval of single-word and multi-word terms and to isolate specialised vocabulary within common lexis. After an initial compilation of the list of technical terms, the coverage of terms relevant to the subject area was checked using textbooks and selected texts in the subject area. Then the lexicographic processing of the compiled list of technical terms took place. Subsequently, specialised dictionaries were evaluated, i.e. the compiled specialised vocabulary was checked on the basis of the degree of terminological coverage. To ensure an optimal design of the online dictionaries portal, we use a modern standard dictionary compiling programme TshwaneLex , with which any lexicographer can create reference works for any language without basic IT knowledge.