Word-entries and Big Data in Lexicons of Early Modern English

2014 
This brief thirty-year history of Lexicons of Early Modern English , an online database of glossaries and dictionaries of the period, begins in a fourteenth-floor Robarts Library lab of the Centre for Computing and the Humanities at the University of Toronto in 1986. It was first published freely online in 1996 as the Early Modern English Dictionaries Database . Ten years later, in a seventh-floor lab also in the Robarts Library, it came out as LEME , thanks to support from TAPoR (Text Analysis Portal for Research) and the University of Toronto Press and Library. No other modern language has such a resource. The most important reason for the emergence, survival, and growth of LEME is that its contemporary lexicographers understood their language differently from how we, our many advantages notwithstanding, have conceived it over the past two centuries. Cette breve histoire des trente ans du Lexicons of Early Modern English , une base de donnees en ligne de glossaires et de dictionnaires de l’epoque, commence en 1986 dans le laboratoire du Centre for Computing and the Humanities, au quatorzieme etage de la bibliotheque Robarts de l’Universite de Toronto. Cette base de donnees a ete publiee gratuitement en ligne premierement en 1996, sous le titre Early Modern English Dictionnaires Database . Dix ans plus tard, elle etait publiee sous le sigle LEME , a partir du septieme etage de la meme bibliotheque Robarts, grace au soutien du TAPoR (Text Analysis Portal for Research), de la bibliotheque et des presses de l’Universite de Toronto. Aucune autre langue vivante ne dispose d’une telle ressource. La principale raison expliquant l’emergence, la survie et la croissance du LEME est que les lexicographes qui font l’objet du LEME comprenaient leur langue tres differemment que nous la concevons depuis deux siecles, et ce nonobstant plusieurs de nos avantages.
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