The last version to date (23rd edition, 2014) contains more than 93.000 entries, 26.000 multiword expressions and 195.000 senses and can be accessed here. It is conceived as a decoding (semasiological) tool for native speakers and is collectively updated by all national academies from Spanish-speaking countries. It describes the Spanish general vocabulary while also registering local, terminological or obsolete specificities. Rooted in the first dictionary ever published by RAE, the DLE is edited periodically since 1780. The Advanced DLE is available within the Enclave Platform. It also gives support to HTTP and JSON to create a RESTful web service to access the dictionary. The facet system or the textual indexing, as well other other aspects of the interface could be extended in several directions.įacet values are represented in RDF and the search engine is implemented on top of SWI Prolog, which provides core packages for RDF storage and querying and XML indexing.

The textual indexing is aware of structural divisions of entries and results can be restricted accordingly. Either way, the usual lemma-based access to dictionaries can be overcome.įacet values are an orthogonal set of categories representing the metainformation conveyed by explicit (abbreviations, etymology, PoS, etc.) and implicit (subject, language families, etc.) tagging. This advanced interface allows users to start a query by typing one or more terms into a search box and to progressively narrow the result set by selecting facet values or textualblocks of the entries where the information is to be queried.Īlternatively, facet values alone can be selected to obtain a list of definitions matching the selected criteria. The combination of textual and faceted searches allows for both intentional and accidental discovery and exploration of lexical information. The advanced DLE 23 interface aims at providing an easy way to perform onomasiological, semasiological and paradigmatic searches to the Diccionario de la lengua española (DLE).

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