Lessico Etimologico Italiano

Vol. XXX (2016): Maurizio Dardano, Note sul participio presente nella Cronica di Anonimo romano, pp. 5-16 – Andrea Bocchi, Trenta lettere da Foligno per Francesco Datini, pp. 17-111 – Rita Fresu, La lingua amministrativa e burocratica nell’Abruzzo teramano tra XVI e XVII secolo: stato degli studi, nuove acquisizioni, lavori in corso, pp. 113-46 – Luca Serianni, Rileggendo 'I Parlari' del Papanti, pp. 147-64 – Pietro Trifone, La poesia nelle terre degli antropofagi. Controcanto a Belli, pp. 165-75 – Francesca De Cianni, Commento al Cantico de’ Cantici di suor Maria Luisa Ascione, una semicolta dell’Ottocento, pp. 177-232 – Rosario Coluccia, Il LEI e la grammatica storica (al di là della lessicografia), pp. 233-49 – Paolo D’Achille, 'Pussa via!' tra romanesco e italiano, pp. 251-69 – Luca Lorenzetti, Varia veliterna, pp. 271-88 – Fabio Aprea, Bibliografia dei testi volgari marchigiani, pp. 289-325 – Sommari/Summaries, pp. 327-334.

To empower end users in searching for historical linguistic content with a performance that far exceeds the research functions offered by websites of, e.g., historical dictionaries, is undoubtedly a major advantage of (Linguistic) Linked Open Data ([L]LOD). An important aim of lexicography is to enable a language-independent, onomasiological approach, and the modelling of linguistic resources following the LOD paradigm facilitates the semantic mapping to ontologies making this approach possible. Hallig-Wartburg's Begriffssystem (HW) is a well-known extra-linguistic conceptual system used as an onomasiological framework by many historical lexicographical and lexicological works. Published in 1952, HW has meanwhile been digitised. With proprietary XML data as the starting point, our goal is the transformation of HW into Linked Open Data in order to facilitate its use by linguistic resources modelled as LOD. In this paper, we describe the particularities of the HW conceptual model and the method of converting HW: We discuss two approaches, (i) the representation of HW in RDF using SKOS, the SKOS thesaurus extension, and XKOS, and (ii) the creation of a lightweight ontology expressed in OWL, based on the RDF/SKOS model. The outcome is illustrated with use cases of medieval Gascon, and Italian.