United in Diversity: Dutch Historical Dictionaries Online
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The Integrated Language Database of Dutch (ILD) is a project of the Institute for Dutch
Lexicology in Leiden, which integrates corpora, computational lexica and dictionaries describing
the Dutch language from ca. 500 until the present. In 2007, the dictionary component was
released, already containing two major historical dictionaries of Dutch, the Woordenboek der
Nederlandsche Taal (WNT, Dictionary of the Dutch Language, 1500-1976) and the
Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek (VMNW, Dictionary of Early Middle Dutch, 1200-1300).
When, by 2009, the Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek (MNW, Dictionary of Middle Dutch, ~1250
- 1550) and the Oudnederlands Woordenboek ("ONW", Dictionary of Old Dutch, a current
project at INL, to be finished in 2008, ca. 500-1200) will have been added, researchers of Dutch
will have access to dictionaries covering the complete history of the Dutch language. The choice
of a single application, integrating the dictionaries so that a user might query one or more
dictionaries simultaneously, was a logical step because of the complementary nature of the
dictionaries. The challenge was not only providing the user with optimal access to the dictionary
information, but also doing so without compromising the uniqueness of each individual dictionary.
We sketch the principles underlying the application.
[1] J. G. Kruyt. The Integrated Language Database of 8th - 21st-Century Dutch , 2004, LREC.
[2] M. T. Lino,et al. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation , 2004 .