Neographic digital resource neolex.iling.spb.ru: search opportunities and development prospects

Abstract

The article discusses the features of an electronic resource neolex.iling.spb.ru, which presents some dictionary materials of the neological lexicography of the Institute of Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The resource has been developed by the members of the Institute of Linguistic Studies since 2021 and has been available to the general public since 2022. The main tasks of the resource are the operational description of new words and expressions of the Russian language, including important lexical units of the current moment, as well as the presentation of published editions of the neographic series of the Institute of Linguistic Studies. On the other hand, thanks to the "internal" editorial interface, the resource represents a database of a group of dictionaries of new words, and also allows editing and adding new information to the materials of published dictionaries. As a historical dictionary project, the resource also aims to describe the vocabulary of earlier periods that has been omitted from dictionaries. In particular, the content from a neological computer archive are selected for this field of study. The scientific task of the project is to parameterise the characteristics of the neological units and to implement a search for parameters and their combinations. The search capabilities of the resource are constantly being improved. Right now, it is possible to search by the type of neological unit (e.g. a word, a stable phrase or a phraseology), grammatical markings, chronological markings of the vocabulary card (approximate year of appearance of the unit in the Russian language), some thematic tags, ambiguity of neologisms within a year or a period. A full-text search for a sequence of two or more characters in a dictionary entry is available, as well as a search for some active initial formants of compound words. Prospects for further development of the project include the addition of new linguistic material to the resource, improved search capabilities and the parameterisation of dictionary entry elements. Collaboration with other digital platforms is also being considered. The dictionary is based on materials from a series of dictionaries "New in the Russian Vocabulary: Dictionary Materials", published from 2015 to 2022, and materials from "New Words and Meanings: A Dictionary-Reference on Materials from the Press and Literature of the 1990s". We are currently working on describing the vocabulary of 2023 and 2024.