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The digitization of Cunliffe's Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect is part of a larger project to create searchable lexica linked to the TLG corpus. Work on digitizing lexica began in 2005 as part of a larger project to lemmatize the Greek corpus. Nick Nicholas has been involved in the lemmatization project since its inception and has been instrumental in expanding its coverage and improving automatic recognition. The LSJ project benefitted greatly from earlier work done by the Perseus Project especially in the area of markup. For practical reasons, we adopted and expanded the Perseus XML/TEI DTD.
This effort proved to be more demanding than we originally anticipated. Proofreading 2,200 pages in double columns and fine print, and ensuring that all terms were correctly encoded and linked to the TLG texts, was an enormous task. We now know that approximately 70% of citations could be automaticalled linked, while the rest would require manual intervention. Nishad Prakash deserves credit for developing the web site and dealing with all technical issues from rendering the data and implementing the user interface to developing programs to automatically link to hundreds of thousands of bibliographical references. Maria Pantelia edited the digital file, and worked on improving recognition of bibliographical citations once automatic recognition had reached its limits. At the time of its release, approximately 95% of citations were linked to TLG texts. This effort will continue until all LSJ references to texts have proper links.
Thanks are due to James Porter (UC Irvine), Steve Mason (York University), Tom Scanlon (UC Riverside) and Donald Mastronarde (UC Berkeley) for beta-testing earlier versions of the project.
Despite its occasional errors, LSJ is an amazingly accurate resource. True credit is owed to its original editors, H.G Liddell, Robert Scott, H.S. Jones and the generations of lexicographers who worked tirelessly to create it.
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