Bilingual Dictionaries in an English Renaissance Knowledge Base

CHWP B.12, publ. September 1996. © Editors of CHWP 1996. [First published in CCH Working Papers, 2 (1992).]

[Abstract / Résumé]

KEYWORDS
bilingual dictionaries, English Renaissance, knowledge base, Palsgrave, Elyot, Thomas, Cotgrave, Florio, TEI, SGML, COCOA

1. A Renaissance Knowledge Base
2. Database Structure
3. What are the Differences between COCOA Tags and SGML Tags?
3.1. Form and Span
3.2. Structure
4. Tagging Palsgrave and Cotgrave with SGML/TEI
5. Expectations of a Text Retrieval System
6. Conclusion
Bibliography

Notes

[1] I wish to thank Douglas Kibbee for many helpful criticisms of an earlier draft of this paper. I also wish to express my gratitude to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for its support of this research, as well as to the Humanities and Social Sciences Committee of the University of Toronto, which supported text-entry of Palsgrave's text.