Resumen de Building an electronic version of the Cuban basic school dictionary

Iñaki Alegría Loinaz , Xabier Arregi Iparragirre , Xabier Artola Zubillaga , Mikel Astiz, Leonel Ruiz Miyares

• This article describes a work done at the Centre for Applied Linguistics (CLA) of Santiago de Cuba in collaboration with the IXA NLP Research Group of the University of the Basque Country, whose main goals have been (1) the conversion of a monolingual dictionary from a text-processing program format into XML, and (2) the design and development of an electronic dictionary. The article outlines the process of the conversion of the dictionary from its original format into TEI-conformant XML. This semi-automatic process has been completed with a quality control phase performed by lexicographers who have manually checked and corrected the encoding of every entry in the dictionary. Moreover, the design of a browser-based electronic dictionary application and its implementation are also explained in the article. Currently, the application has been released and distributed through 200 Cuban schools. An on-line version will be soon published at the CLA website.