Integrated Lexicographic Platform for the Russian Language

This paper deals with the first phase of building an integrated lexicographic platform for the Russian language which can be used for various linguistic purposes. The aim of this paper is to present the main ideas of the lexicographic platform and linked projects (digitization of explanatory dictionaries of Russian, design and implementation of a database of citations) and to describe the current state of the data sources and lexicographic tools for Russian. This project is realized in cooperation between the Philological Faculty, St. Petersburg State University, Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. The ultimate aim is to provide new lexicographic software tools for developing explanatory dictionaries of the Russian language.