Återanvändning av ordboksmaterial - mål och metoder

Resumé

The advent of new technology has made it possible to make more efficient use of existing dictionary material in the elaboration of new works. The paper describes three authentic instances: using the source-language data base of a bilingual dictionary to create a dictionary with a new target language, retrieving and updating text not available in digital form, and reversing a bilingual dictionary. It describes the reasoning behind each case and discusses advantages and problems as well as the demands these methods put on the lexicographer.