Etymological formula in onomastics

Onomastics and Big Data Mining

As of today, the main business application of onomastics is naming, or branding: �nding the proper name for your company or your product to stand out in the world. Meaningfully, Onoma – the Greek root for name – is also a registered trademark of Nomen, the naming agency founded by Marcel Botton in 1981. Nomen initially licensed one of Roland Moreno's inventions, the Radoteur name generator, and...

Deep encoding of etymological information in TEI

In this paper we provide a systematic and comprehensive set of modeling principles for representing etymological data in digital dictionaries using TEI. The purpose is to integrate in one coherent framework both digital representations of legacy dictionaries and born-digital lexical databases that are constructed manually or semi-automatically. We provide examples from many different types of e...

Minimum Description Length Modeling of Etymological Data

Etymological Wordnet: Tracing The History of Words

Research on the history of words has led to remarkable insights about language and also about the history of human civilization more generally. This paper presents the Etymological Wordnet, the first database that aims at making word origin information available as a large, machine-readable network of words in many languages. The information in this resource is obtained from Wiktionary. Extract...

Thesauri, taxonomies and ontologies - an etymological note