Creating the Infrastructure for the New English-Irish Dictionary

In 2003 LexMC won a contract for 'Phase 1' of the NEID (www.focloir.ie), a project which entailed the development and delivery by LexMC of the following components:

• a headword list and a set of headword selection principles
• a detailed description of the proposed entry structures
• a list of labels for marking style, domain, dialect etc
• a Style Guide (lexicographers' manual)
• a document type definition (DTD)
• 100 sample bilingual entries covering the full range of entry types
• 50 'template entries' for handling entries belonging to the same semantic set
• a complete corpus package (the New Corpus for Ireland)
• a functioning web-based 'reading-and-marking' programme
• a complete set of lexicographic software, including a CQS, a DWS and project-management tools
• a Linguistic Advisory Board consisting of 30 leading Irish linguists, to advise on dictionary policy and comment on dictionary text
• a business plan for completing the dictionary, with detailed schedules and budgets

The project was completed successfully, within budget and on schedule.

Creating the English frameworks for the New English-Irish Dictionary

LexMC has won a contract for Phase 2a of the NEID. This project will last from 1st February 2008 to 31st July 2010, will employ up to a dozen lexicographers, and will produce richly detailed lexical entries on which the bilingual English-Irish entries of the NEID will be based