Евгений Куприянов

Nowadays linguistic corpora are recognized as a most effective tool to perform linguistic researches in digital environment. However, the dictionaries that actively use corpus technologies for their creation and update remain underestimated in regards to their research potential. Fundamental explanatory dictionaries of national languages are of primary interest for linguistic experts. The dictionaries of this kind are characterized by giving complete wellstructured and multi-aspect description of language units, having linguistic theories as a basis for creation and by representing all the linguistic information necessary not only for understanding the meanings of language units in various contexts, but also for their correct use. The present paper describes the project of software toolkit for extracting linguistic information from dictionary text. The authors share their experience gained while creating such kind of research tool and show its advantages for professional linguists. ...